The former was nominated for a National Book Award and the second had an intriguing title with poems that demanded both an intellectual and emotional reaction. Lorde’s place in the book of ...

Keeping in mind the need to care for and pace oneself for the long haul, columnist Dan Horan says there are three areas of ...

A new biography of Audre Lorde by the poet and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs is only the second full-length text treatment of the author, who was born in 1934, 16 months after Plath, in Harlem.

It offers a deeper understanding of her poetry, highlighting key moments that shaped her identity and activism, all with the ...

Like Du Bois, Césaire and Baraka, Lorde’s work defies genre: as she argues in this collection, ‘poetry is not a luxury’ but an essential tool for liberation. Throughout her work, Lorde sought to find ...