Tag Archives: Audre Lorde

TCS: The Starless Midnight and the Bright Daybreak

Posted on January 18, 2021 by wordcloud9

. 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 →

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TCS: With Lifted Hearts Singing – Poems for Labor Day

Posted on September 7, 2020 by wordcloud9

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TCS: Election Anxiety in a Plague Year

Posted on July 6, 2020 by wordcloud9

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

Posted on March 9, 2020 by wordcloud9

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ON THIS DAY: February 18, 2020

Posted on February 18, 2020 by wordcloud9

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

Posted on October 17, 2019 by wordcloud9

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

Posted on August 26, 2019 by wordcloud9

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WORD CLOUD: Afterimage (Redux)

Posted on August 9, 2019 by wordcloud9

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

Posted on February 18, 2019 by wordcloud9

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

Posted on November 5, 2018 by wordcloud9

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