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Tag Archives: Audre Lorde
TCS: The Starless Midnight and the Bright Daybreak
. Good Morning! ______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ______________________________ Justice in the … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Audre Lorde, Frederick Douglass, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King Jr, Plato, TCS
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TCS: With Lifted Hearts Singing – Poems for Labor Day
. Good Morning! ___________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings.This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burninga hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. … Continue reading
TCS: Election Anxiety in a Plague Year
. Good Morning! _______________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. _______________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Audre Lorde, Emily Dickinson - Susan B. Anthony - Henry Brooks Adams, John Greenleaf Whittier, Langston Hughes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, November 2020, Roald Dahl - Robert Green Ingersoll - Martin Luther King, TCS: Election Anxiety in a Plague Year
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TCS: No Magic Any More – Poems for Get Over It Day
. . Good Morning! __________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings.This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burninga hole in your brainpan, feel free to add … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: February 18, 2020
February 18th is (U.S.) Presidents Day Crab Stuffed Flounder Day Battery Day * National Drink Wine Day Pluto Day * _______________________________________ MORE! Toni Morrison, Ray Charles and Audre Lorde, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Audre Lorde, Mary Amdur, Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Nasīr al-Dīn Tusī, Ray Charles, Toni Morrison, Wallace Stegner
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Total Black: A Poem for Black Poetry Day
Coal by Audre Lorde I Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open. How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Audre Lorde, Black Poetry Day, Coal, Total Black: A Poem for Black Poetry Day
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TCS: An Oh-So-Ironic Women’s Equality Day – 2019
. . Good Morning! ______________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to … Continue reading
Posted in History, Poetry, The Coffee Shop, United States
Tagged An Oh-So-Ironic Women's Equality Day - 2019, Audre Lorde, Rose Schneiderman, TCS, Women's Equality Day
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WORD CLOUD: Afterimage (Redux)
Given the increasingly divisive rhetoric with which we are being bombarded in the U.S., and the resultant racial tension, mass shootings and other violence it inspires, I am reprising this profile of Audre Lorde, a writer whose work I find … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Afterimages, Audre Lorde, Black Dragonfish, Cancer, Homophobia, police murder, Racism, Sexism
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ON THIS DAY: February 18, 2019
February 18th is (U.S.) Presidents Day Battery Day * Crab Stuffed Flounder Day National Drink Wine Day Pluto Day * _______________________________________ MORE! Toni Morrison, Ray Charles and Audre Lorde, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Audre Lorde, Ida Husted Harper, Mary Amdur, Nasīr al-Dīn Tusī, Nikos Kazantzakis, Ray Charles, Toni Morrison
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TCS: WHY VOTE? Poets Tell Us What All the Polls Leave Out
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Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Audre Lorde, Dana Gioia, John Greenleaf Whittier, Naomi Shihab Nye, Roald Dahl, TCS, WHY VOTE? Poets Tell Us What All the Polls Leave Out, William Carlos Williams
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