Audre lorde famous poems
Audre lorde poems.
Poet and author Audre Lorde used her writing to shine light on her experience of the world as a Black lesbian woman and later, as a mother and person suffering from cancer.
Audre lorde poems about feminism
A prominent member of the women’s and LGBTQ rights movements, her writings called attention to the multifaceted nature of identity and the ways in which people from different walks of life could grow stronger together.
Audrey Geraldine Lorde was born on February 18, to Frederic and Linda Belmar Lorde, immigrants from Grenada.
She was the youngest of three sisters and grew up in Manhattan. As a child, Lorde dropped the “y” from her first name to become Audre.
Lorde connected with poetry from a young age. She once commented, “I used to speak in poetrywhen I couldn’t find the poems to express the things I was feeling, that’s what started me writing poetry.” She was around 12 or 13 at the time.
She graduated from Hunter High School, where she edited the literary magazine. After an English teacher rejected one of he