Sublime

Born in 1930, Edna O’Brien was raised in a strict Catholic household. As a young girl, she read such writers as Tolstoy, Thackeray, and James Joyce while stifled in the strict Catholic boarding school she felt imprisoned by. In 1950, having studied at night at a pharmaceutical college and worked in a Dublin pharmacy... See more

Lucille Clifton’s poetry has been called “musical” by many readers—but what precisely does that mean? One of the most significant poets of the 20th century, Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) visited Pittsburgh in 1971 for a performance of her work in the International Poetry Forum’s “New Poets” series at Carnegie Lecture... See more