Lucinda J. Clark

Poet, Spoken Word Artist

Author's Bio

 Lucinda J. Clark is the founder of the Poetry Matters Project. She has worked with visual artists and authors on the protection, promotion and marketing of their creative works for over 25 years. She is a contributing poet of the View from The Middle of The Road Series of which there are now five editions.  She has also worked with poets ranging from middle schoolers to seniors on a series of anthologies, from these efforts she has published four anthologies with anothers set for the future. In June 2025 she was awarded the Literary Arts Professional Award by the Greater Augusta Arts Council.

Clark is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. where she is the Co-Chair of Arts and Letters Committee. Past President of the Georgia Poetry Society. She began her work in short film production with her award winning short, Black People Don't Tango with her son R. Xavier Clark who wrote and directed the short in 2023.

She has been a judge for

Young Writers Competition Community Judge 2023, 2024, 2025 Augusta University-Poetry

Spooky Stories Contest  2024- 2025 Georgia Writers

Ben Franklin Awards, IBPA

 South Carolina Arts Commission, Fellowship selection panelist, 2020,

Poetry Matters Lit Prize 2000-2023 

Laws of Life Essay Contest. District 6910

She resides in Georgia.

Publications & Prizes

Poetry

Anthologies:
Reach of Song (Georgia Poetry Society, 2024)
,
Reach of Song 2022 (Georgia Poetry Society, 2022)
Book:
View From The Middle of The Road Series (P.R.A. Publishing, 2019)
Journals:
Articoli Liberi
,
Masticadores Taiwan

Spoken Word

Performances:
Melodically Challenged Radio (2023)
,
Vermont Poetry Society (2023)
,
New Orleans Poetry Festival (2021)
,
Better Together (2020)
,
Poetry Month Challenge 2020 (2020)
,
Reading For International's Poets Reading Twaiwan (2020)
,
Wake Up America (2020)
,
Wanda Picks Radio (2020)
,
Reading for Poetry Month (2019)
,
Accentuated Reading Project (2018)
Prizes won: 

 Literary Arts Professional Greater Augusta Arts Council- 2025

Ira Harrison Social Issues Poetry Award-HM- Georgia Poetry Society 2022      

 Best Short film producer Indiefare Intl Film Festival  July 2022 for film Black People Don't Tango

   

 

 

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Tayari Jones, Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton, Claudia Rankine Natasha Trethwey Sheema Kalbasi Geza Tatrallyay, Jonathan Mayberry Mitch Albom, Colson Whitehead
What I'm reading now: 
Denounce! by Silvana Marcorni, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, Boston My Blissful Winter by Alain Briottet, Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey, The Mind Spins by Geza Tatrallyay, Et Pourtant Je M' Eleve by Maya Angelou, Le Petit Livre Des Haikus by Muriel Detrie, Amongst The Grapevines by Minney Richani, How The Word Is Passed by Clint Smith, My Body Lives Like A Threat by Megha Sood, Deunce by Silvana Marcorni

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Sep 25, 2025