We invite American poet and writer Eileen Myles to discuss Lucille Clifton’s “the mother’sstory.” In the late 1960s, New York poet Lucille Clifton first began publishing the understated,powerful poems that she is famous for today. “the mother’s story” presents a distinctintersectional perspective on both motherhood and cultural tradition. The poem protests the ideaof a purely male artistic lineage, and tries to establish a female one in its place.