2026 keeps bringing back the dead: there are new books of poems from Larry Levis, Fanny Howe, Franz Wright, and of course Lucille Clifton’s At the Gate : Uncollected Poems 1987-2010 (BOA Editions), edited by Kazim Ali and born from new access to digital archives. This spring release coincides with the ongoing development of the Clifton House in Baltimore, where Executive Director Joël Diaz and Clifton’s daughter Sidney Clifton warmly welcomed some of us attending AWP Baltimore last month. To have Clifton re-enter the room, and to have the opportunity to enter the rooms where she wrote so many of her poems, is a gift in these times.…