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February 13, 2015 – Segment 3
Maryland Poet Laureate Lucille Clifton passed away on this day in 2010. We remember her by listening to her read some of her best poems, and we listen back to a segment from the Marc Steiner Show archives, where we talked to friends and colleagues about Lucille Clifton’s life and legacy shortly after her passing. Featuring: Michael Glaser, the Poet Laureate of Maryland, who taught with Lucille Clifton at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and his wife Kathleen Glaser, who was principal of Hollywood Elementary School where Clifton spoke to students; E. Ethelbert Miller, a poet and literary activist on the Board of the Institute for Policy Studies, and Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University; poet and playwright Kenneth Carroll; and Wayne Karlin, a writer, who has written and edited many books, and a professor in the Languages and Literature Department at the College of Southern Maryland.
