Barnard's Writing Black Lives Series Presents Alexis DeVeaux, Biographer on Audre Lorde
New York, NY-- Barnard College's Writing Black Lives series presents Warrior Poet: A Life of Audre Lorde , a discussion by Lorde's biographer Alexis De Veaux. This event will take place on Tuesday, March 29 at 7pm in Held Auditorium in Barnard Hall. (117 th and Broadway).
During her lifetime, Audre Lorde (1932-1992) created a mythic identity for herself that retains its vitality to this day. In Warrior Poet , the long-awaited first biography of Lorde, Alexis De Veaux demystifies her iconic status. The book charts her childhood in Harlem and the conservative household of her Caribbean-immigrant parents, her early marriage to a white, gay man with whom she had two children, and carries us through her emergence as an outspoken black feminist lesbian poet and her canonization as a significant poet of American literature. De Veaux assesses her cultural legacy as a defining figure in the civil rights struggles of the 20 th century.
Alexis De Veaux is chair of the Women's Studies Department at the University of Buffalo-State University of New York. She has written for Ms ., Essence , and the Village Voice , among other publications.
Writing Black Lives , presented by Barnard's program in Africa and African Diaspora Studies, is a yearlong author's series showcasing the literature of significant black writers and figures of African descent through biography and memoir. Organized by Professor Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, the scholar, author, and national radio book show host, this multidisciplinary approach charts the history, politics, cultures, and literatures of Africa in the Americas.
The Writing Black Lives series is free and open to the public. For updates on the series or more information, please contact the Barnard Office of Public Affairs at (212) 854-2037.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs, 212-854-7907, ptuomi@barnard.edu
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