Tag Archives: Audre Lorde

TCS: The Starless Midnight and the Bright Daybreak

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TCS: With Lifted Hearts Singing – Poems for Labor Day

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TCS: Election Anxiety in a Plague Year

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TCS: No Magic Any More – Poems for Get Over It Day

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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

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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

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TCS: An Oh-So-Ironic Women’s Equality Day – 2019

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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

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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

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TCS: WHY VOTE? Poets Tell Us What All the Polls Leave Out

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