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Audre Lorde Reads “Blackstudies”

Audre Lorde reads "Black Studies" (complete) from New York Head Shop and Museum —The Poetry Center

Audre Lorde reads "Black Studies" (complete) from New York Head Shop and Museum —The Poetry Center

“I am afraid / that the mouths I feed will turn against me / will refuse to swallow in the silence / I am warning them to avoid.” Audre Lorde reads her poem “Blackstudies,” which appears in her book New York Head Shop and Museum (Broadside Press, 1974), in this video from the Poetry Center’s American Poetry Archives collection at San Francisco State University.

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Poets & Writers Theater

Audre Lorde Reads “Blackstudies”

Audre Lorde reads "Black Studies" (complete) from New York Head Shop and Museum —The Poetry Center

Audre Lorde reads "Black Studies" (complete) from New York Head Shop and Museum —The Poetry Center