

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: But Then You Read Lorde
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Celebrating  the legacy and poetry of  Audre Lorde.About this EventIN PERSONBut Then You Read Lorde is a multidisciplinary, day-long program celebrating the breadth of work and the influence of Audre Lorde, hosted at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in collaboration with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde .The program brings together a dynamic group of writers, artists, cultural producers, and scholars to read primarily from Lorde’s poetry, activating her work as a living, shared practice.Across the day, audiences are invited to listen, reflect, and engage with themes of love, power, identity, and liberation that remain as urgent today as ever. Join us for a collective experience of voice, memory, and transformation where reading becomes a way of connecting, remembering, and imagining other worlds.Participants include Alexis De Veaux, Beverly Sheftall, Briona Simone Jones, Cheryl Boyce, Cheryl Clarke, Holly Smith, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Darnell Moore, Aunjunue Ellis Taylor, Tasha Dougé and more.ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBSAlexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines. Her writing has appeared in publications including Make/Shift, Left Turn, The Abolitionist, Ms. Magazine, and more. She holds a PhD in English, African and African American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University and is the co founder of Black Feminist Film School, an initiative to screen, study, and produce films with a Black feminist ethic. Alexis has won the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry and the Whiting Award in Nonfiction. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction.PROGRAMThe program schedule will be posted on Monday, April 6.FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLICACCESSIBLILITYAccessibility requests can be made by e-mail accessibility@nypl.org.#Schomburglive #ReadingLordeLEARN MOREThis year, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture continues celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding! Join us all year long for a wide array of special events, exhibitions, and more as we celebrate this milestone and continue the legacy of Arturo Schomburg.Schomburg100 | Exhibition | Special-Edition Library Card | Become a Member#SchomburgLive__________________________FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED Events are free and open to all, but due to space constraints registration is requested. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration, so we recommend that you arrive early. We generally overbook to ensure a full house.GUESTS Please note that holding seats in the Langston Hughes Auditorium is strictly prohibited and there is no food or drinks allowed anywhere in the Schomburg Center.ACCESSIBLILITY Accessibility requests can be made by e-mail accessibility@nypl.org.E-TRANSPORTATION NYPL policy prohibits electric transportation devices (e.g., motorbikes, e-bikes, e-scooters, e-skateboards) from being brought into or stored at library sites for any length of time, as this is the best way to keep our spaces &amp; people safe.AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING Programs are photographed and recorded by the Schomburg Center. Attending this event indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any all purposes of the New York Public Library.PRESS Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at leahdrayton@nypl.org.Please note that personal and professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/12b0f950-2995-11f1-9b78-2b8de5d122b0-rimg-w1200-h627-dcffffff-gmir.jpg
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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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- **full address**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 am (-04:00)
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  - **A:** Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, United States
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Exhibitions
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