In honor of Audre Lorde’s birthday (February 18) and Black History Month, celebrate an intergenerational lineage of "glocal" (global + local) Black queer feminist poets. Cheryl Clarke visits Chicago with a retrospective collection Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems and reads alongside Harmony Holiday, Natalia Molebatsi, and Nikki Patin. Through memory and across time, these four poets render dynamic and radical archives of desire, music, lineage, and style.
Power lines from the poets:
I’ve been written out of so many stories… I had to write my
own.
in your arms
of imagi-
nation
and you blow-
ing some old
song: yeah
of imagi-
nation
and you blow-
ing some old
song: yeah
yeah
Power with all the wars in it ain’t shit in a
flawed system besides self-destruction may all our enemies become
powerful and empty in the
flawed system besides self-destruction may all our enemies become
powerful and empty in the
west
This event is presented in partnership with Northwestern University’s Performance Studies and Black Arts Consortium as part of the Poetry Foundation’s spring 2025 season, Power Lines.
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