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Learn how Audre Lorde became a poet

Learn how Audre Lorde became a poet

Audre Lorde explaining how she became a poet, from A Litany for Survival (1995).
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    From 2019 to 2022, Joy Harjo held the role of U.S. poet laureate.
    Joy Harjo Explains the Job of Poet Laureate
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    How did Gatsby become so…great?
    The Great Gatsby: From Flop to Great American Novel
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    Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982. With it, she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
    The Colorful Life of The Color Purple Author Alice Walker
    The Colorful Life of The Color Purple Author Alice Walker
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    Ever attended a poetry reading in an arena?
    Robert Frost: Most famous poet in America? 
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    What do a frog and a poet have in common? Ask Robert Frost.
    Reading and Interpretation: “The Onset” by Robert Frost
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    “It is a truth universally acknowledged...”
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    Everything We Know and Love About Jane Austen
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    On January 1, 1818, a small London publisher printed 500 copies of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus on the cheapest paper available. That was only the beginning.
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Birth of Frankenstein
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