Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker and a black feminist love evangelist who lives and loves in Durham, North Carolina. She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke University Press, 2016), the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016), and the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Intergalactic community school. She is a Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize Honoree, was included in Best American Experimental Writing 2015, and was named one of 10 Poets for the Revolution by the Best American Poetry blog.
Participation at the 2016 West End Poetry Festival
- Opening Celebration | Friday, October 14 | 6:30 to 8:30 pm | Flyleaf Books
- For a full schedule and descriptions of all sessions, see the festival schedule.
