"For women ... poetry is not a luxury.……" — Audre Lorde

"For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we can predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, theninto more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help givename to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives."

— Audre Lorde

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