W hen Audre Lorde released her poetry collection Coal in 1976, her status as a groundbreaking Black lesbian feminist poet was cemented for a wider audience. Coal gave voice to Lorde’s personal ...

Instead, she wanted to read poetry in protest of the U.S. government’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza. “I had picked out some poems from Palestinian women,” Roan said.

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