Now, some 30 years after her death, an honor is bestowed on a woman who proclaimed and was described as “Black, lesbian, mother, and warrior poet.”
Today if she dallied for a moment there on the northwest corner and looked up she would see emblazoned on the street sign—Audre Lorde Way.
“I am very proud to have sponsored the co-naming of East 68th Street as Audre Lorde Way,” he said. In his estimation Lorde was “a trailblazing artist, activist, and feminist” and deserved recognition in the community where she studied, taught and built her legacy.
The poem, like the diamond, refracts a number of bright and dazzling possibilities, much like the corpus of writings Lorde completed and can be found in such publications as “Sister Outsider,” “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name,” ”A Burst of Light,” and the “Cancer Journals.