Artists' Fellowship - 1985
Poetry
Artist Statement:
I was able to complete a new book of poems, "Our Dead Behind Us", and began research and work on a novel.
More about the Artist:
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) first published one of her poems in Seventeen magazine while she was still in high school. Lorde went on to publish over 15 volumes of poetry and prose. Her poetry has been highly influential both as literature and as social and political activism.
Lorde was the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit, which conferred the mantle of New York State poet for 1991-93. In designating her New York State's Poet Laureate, Governor Mario Cuomo, stated:
"Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty, of sexual prejudice…She cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere."
(Deceased. 1992)
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