Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde(b. February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City) was a multi-faceted writer and activist. She was a black lesbian, mother, warrior poet.

She died of cancer in 1992. She is famous for her poetic works, for which she became State Poet of New York from 1991-1993, including:

• The First Cities (1968)
• Cables to Rage (1970)
• From a Land Where Other People Live (1973)
• New York Head Shop and Museum(1974)
• Coal (1976)
• Between Our Selves (1976)
• The Black Unicorn (1978)
• Chosen Poems: Old and New (1982)
• Our Dead Behind Us (1986)
• The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance (1993)