![]() The daughter of Caribbean immigrants, Lorde was born in 1934 in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, going on to become the first Black student at the school for gifted students, Hunter High School, and then earning a master's degree in library science at Columbia University in 1961. ![]() A poem she wrote in 1951 called “Spring” was turned down by her high school’s literary journal for being unsuitable, but when she was 15, Seventeen magazine printed it, officially turning her into a published poet. Her works conveyed a sensibility well beyond her years. In fact, she often expressed her emotions through poetry, starting to write her own around the time she was in eighth grade. But once she did, her words came with an extra flair. “I was very inarticulate as a youngster,” she once said, explaining that it wasn’t until she learned to read and write that she eventually spoke. Perhaps it’s symbolic that Audre Lorde didn’t start speaking until she was five years old. ![]()
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