Lorde, Audre

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: authors Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde in conversation (Production reel)

    Production reel (excerpts) from a conversation between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich and reading from Adrienne Rich, date and location unknown.  Parts of this recording (not neccesarily these excerpts) were likely used for the April 14, 1982 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer for April 14, 1982, produced by Donna Allegra.

  • Women’s Poetry Reading to benefit Ikon Magazine

    The second half of the excerpted version of the benefit reading held for Ikon Magazine on October 16 1982 at New York University. The event was emceed by poet Patricia Spears Jones. Readers are Lois Elaine Griffith (one of the founding poets of the Nuryorican Poets Cafe), Hettie Jones (b. 1935, ex-wife of Leroi Jones/Amiri…

  • The Lesbian Show: July 15, 1980 – Third World Lesbian Writers Conference (2nd annual)

    The Lesbian Show, produced by Donna Allegra, features readings from the 2nd Annual Third World Lesbian Writers Conference in April 1980, sponsored by the Azalea collective and Salsa Soul. Audre Lorde opened the night reading “Need.” The following readers are Imani, Joan Gibbs, Anita Cornwell, Isis, Arisa Reed, Candice Boyce, Chirlane McCray, and Jabu reading…

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett (Part 2 of 2)

    This reel (Part 2 of 2) continues a talk by Kate Millet about her visit to Iran and the March 8 International Women’s Day March protest against the Shah’s corrupt government that she experienced. Millett’s comments from the Judson Memorial Church on May 4th.

  • Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Kate Millett

    Poetry readings by Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde, recorded at St. Peter’s Church in New York City, March 7, 1979, and a talk by Kate Millett recorded at Judson Memorial Church, May 4th, 1979. Poems read by Rich include: 2:21–“For Julian in Nebraska”, 5:32–“The Image” (1976 trip to Crete), 13:20–“Spring 1979” (unfinished poem). Poems read…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: August 20, 1982- Audre Lorde

    Episode from August 20, 1982. Blanche Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992). Lorde reads some selections from her new book Chosen Poems: Old and New (W.W. Norton, 1982).

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: November 20, 1982-Audre Lorde

    Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews poet, essayist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) about her new book, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – A Biomythography (Persephone, 1982), from which she reads excerpts. Lorde and Cook discuss various scenes in the book, including Lorde’s relationship with her mother, her process of becoming a reader,…

  • Women and the world in the 1980s: Grenada in 1983

    Blanche Wiesen Cook speaks with poet and novelist Audre Lorde (1934-1992) and Zala Chandler from the Coalition of Concerned Black Women on the recent US-led invasion of Grenada. Lorde reads an excerpt from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – A Biomythography (Crossing Press, 1983, repress).

  • Audre Lorde interviewed by Judy Simmons

    This is a recording of Judy Simmons interviewing Audre Lorde during a late-night show on WBAI in New York. In this recording, Lorde reads selections out of her book The Black Unicorn, and the two women converse with listeners who call in to discuss poetry, differences between men and women, being African-American, and other topics.…

  • Audre Lorde reading at the College of Marin

    Black lesbian feminist poet and writer Audre Lorde, gives a reading at College of Marin on February 23, 1984. Lorde was a professor of English at Hunter College of CUNY in Manhattan, NY. She begins with poems from “The Black Unicorn”. Produced recording, contains pre-recorded music intro and outro and 1-2 songs edited into reading.…