Poetry Breaks: Lucille Clifton on Where Ideas Come From

The Poetry Breaks series is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who co-produced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations. The Academy of American Poets has partnered with Luchetti to present these videos once again.

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Everything in life is a symbol. Everything in life can represent some form of human emotion or experience. A child playing with a ball, a puppy chasing its tail, a woman with a tear in her eye, a full moon. Where there is a symbol there is a poem.

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