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Audre Lorde

Posted on 2024-10-21 by Bartholomew Barker

She sits at the bar of my favorite strip club,drinking something tropical. I try to flirtby paraphrasing the last stanza of one her poems,asking who survived all those liberations.She just smirks. I tell her my first ex-wife also graduatedfrom Hunter … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Audre Lorde

Posted on 2024-03-15 by Bartholomew Barker

I am not one thing each aspect a note in a chord and I am the song For Women’s History Month, a haiku for the great Audre Lorde, 1934-1992. She described herself as a “black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, … Continue reading →

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