If you don’t already know, this is Lucille Clifton. Any description I would write for her would be inadequate, so all I have right now is this out-of-context list: Lucille was a whole human, daughter, sister, wife, mother, educator, prize-winning poet and writer, and former poet laureate of Maryland. Lucille was also my teacher and my honorary Auntie—though she doesn’t know that…
