Harriet

Like sexual preference, textual preference occurs at the intersection of needs, desires, and the political realm of language.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it....

In communities of poets, one can sometimes perceive a faint hum of grumbling ambivalence about the fact that many of us fell in love with, were made smart about, and...

Phoebe Cripps writes for Frieze about Berlin's transmediale festival last weekend, at which, she writes, "Lisa Nakamura noted how many speakers had quoted poet, feminist and civil rights activist, Audre Lorde." The main...

On a recent episode of the Poetry Magazine Podcast, we discussed Harmony Holiday’s poem “Sex tape or Future and Audre Lorde fall in love.” Holiday then wrote to us to...

Literary Hub presents an excerpt from a new book of Audre Lorde's essays called A Burst of Light and Other Essays, published recently by Ixia Press. In this excerpt, Lorde...

The New Inquiry's Keguro Macharia makes a gathering public, and is "trying to think with Audre Lorde’s work, to identify certain keywords." "Difference is one, survival is another," writes Machiara. "Related...

I first met Tongo Eisen-Martin when he read at the monthly salon I held at my house in San Francisco. Part cocktail and dinner party, part poetry reading, these parties...