Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Lucille Clifton
Plaque quoting Clifton outside the New York Public Library
Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe reads Three Wishes, by Clifton, to a first-grade class at Nathan Hale Elementary in honor of African American History Month, February 12, 2010.
Depew is a village in Erie County, New York. The population was 15,303 at the time of the 2010 census. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area. The village is named for Chauncey Depew, a politician and one of the original investors who bought the land for the village, which was incorporated in 1894.
Apollos Hitchcock