Audre Lorde

But Then You Read Lorde

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Saturday, Apr 4 from 11 am to 4 pm

Alexis De Veaux will be a featured reader at the event.

But Then You Read Lorde is a multidisciplinary day-long program celebrating the breadth of work and influence of Audre Lorde, hosted by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. This program brings together a dynamic group of writers, artists, cultural producers, and scholars to read primarily from Lorde’s poetry, activating her work as a living, shared practice. Across the day, audiences are invited to listen, reflect, and engage with themes of love, power, identity, and liberation that remain as urgent today as ever.

Photo: Audre Lorde, Alexis De Veaux, Gloria Joseph, Nancy Morejon, Toni Cade Bambara, Jayne Cortez, person unknown and Virta Mae Grosvenor. circa 1985 Cuba.

Global Queer Read-In

Global Queer Read-In: June 2020

“On June 25th, 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri, actor Alfre Woodard, playwright Charles Busch, writer/poet Alexis De Veaux, singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins join a list of over 30 LGBTQI writers, playwrights, activists and artists joined us on camera reading passages from their favorite and influential works of queer literature and poetry for the first marathon”