Thought for the Day

. . . For women, then, poetry is not a luxury.

It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms

the quality of the light within which we predicate

our hopes and dreams toward survival and change,

first made into language, then into idea, then into more 

tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to

the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons

of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems,

carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives. . . .

~ Audre Lorde*

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* From Audre Lorde, "Power, Oppression and the Politics of Culture: A Lesbian/Feminist Perspective", 4th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mt. Holyoke College, August 23-25, 1978 (excerpt, pp 23-25)

Audre Lorde's Emory University Profile

Audre Lorde on Modern American Poetry

Audre Lorde on Poets.org/Academy of American Poets 

Audre Lorde Profile at New York State Writers Institute/SUNY

Audre Lorde Project  (FaceBook and Twitter)

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays & Speeches (Crossing Press, 2007), GoogleBooks

Audre Lorde, "The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action (Excerpt)", Ubuntu!, June 26, 2007

A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (Documentary)

A Tribute to Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years (FaceBook) This is about a film by Dagmar Schultz and Zara Zandieh, who expect to release the documentary in Winter 2011/2012.

Alexis de Veaux, Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, GoogleBooks