Lorde then quit her job as head librarian at a school in New York City in order to devote her time to teaching and writing. Her first volume of poetry, "The First Cities," was published in 1968. Other early poems were published in many different journals, many of them under the pseudonym Rey Domini. Her first poem was published in Seventeen magazine while she was in high school it had been rejected by her high school newspaper because it was "too romantic" (Lorde considered her "mature" poetry, which focuses on her lesbian relationships, to be romantic also). Lorde first came to critical attention with her poetry. She married in 1962 and divorced in 1970, after having two children. An African American lesbian feminist critic and writer, Lorde was born in Harlem and educated at National University of Mexico, Hunter College, and Columbia University.
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