Tag Archives: Audre Lorde

Coming Out, Better than Remaining Silent

Audre Lorde has a powerful poem for those LGBTQ folk wrestling with whether or not to come out.

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Remembering Summers Long Ago

Poet Helen Mitsios thinks back to a perfect summer–as perhaps some of us are doing as the weather turns chilly.

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Poetry Helps Balance Realism & Hope

Poetry not only calls out society’s ills but offers us hope.

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Lorde on Our Fury over Racial Killings

Lorde has a poem examining her anger at Whites killing innocent Blacks. It’s a good caution as the Arbery trial nears its end.

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Choose Honey over Race Hatred

Audre Lorde captures the utter waste when we descend into violence, a good message for the race hatred we are witnessing around the country.

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Read Poetry To Keep Hope Alive

Literature that just shows us the grim truth of reality without the possibility of hope calls into question the whole enterprise. Much great literature frames reality in such a way that we can see new possibilities for ourselves.

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Banishing Fear by Standing Tall

Police officer Darren Wilson, whom a Ferguson Grand Jury refused to indict last week for shooting Michael Brown, is the latest in a long line of police and vigilantes who have gone free after killing unarmed black men. Upon hearing the decision, one National Public Radio columnist turned to an Audre Lorde poem for comfort. […]

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Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Poetry Audre Lorde makes a practical case for visionary poetry.

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