Ep 14: Writing the Spirit

Hoodoo Plant Mamas

Welcome back to Season 3 of Hoodoo Plant Mamas! This season we're doing things a little differently and are focusing on writing in the Hoodoo tradition. Each episode will feature a different Black writer who utilizes or discusses Spirit in their work. In this episode, we discuss Lucille Clifton's spiritual writing and get into some other Black women writers who also have work inspired by Spirit.

Resources

• "The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton" by Marina Magloire
• How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay (Editor)
• Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
• Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women by Akasha Gloria Hull

Black Writers to Explore: Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayle Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Dolores Kendrick, Sherley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shane, SDiane Bogus, Tina McElroy Ansa, Shirley Jackson-Opoku, Jewelle Gomez, A.J. Verdelle, Devora Major, Phyllis Alesia Perry

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