won’t you celebrate with me By Lucille Clifton - Poem for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A
The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A can be found here)
This poem was selected to accompany one of the
lectionary readings for the coming week, Romans 6:12-23
won’t you celebrate with me
Lucille Clifton
SNIPPET:
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life?
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Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) 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. (via Wikipedia)