A celebration of Philadelphia poet Jasmine Gibson’s second book of poetry, A Beauty Has Come, and the legendary black feminist writer Alexis De Veaux’s JesusDevil: The Parables. Come for a night of Black experimentalisms, spirit whispers, sounds, and the irresistible pull of liberation. 

Advanced registration recommended and appreciated.

About the Speakers

Alexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction, poetry, plays, memoirs, and children’s literature since 1973, and her work is anthologized in numerous collections. De Veaux is the author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde; and was tenured faculty at the University at Buffalo, Department of Women’s Studies, for more than twenty years, mentoring a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars of black, feminist, and queer studies.

Jasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn, poet and social worker. Her work has been featured or reviewed in The New Yorker, PoetryNow, Entropy, Hyperallergic, Datableed Zine, LIES: Journal of Materialist Feminism, Poetry Project, The Adroit Journal, and more. She received her BA in Political Science from Temple University and MSW from Hunter College, Silberman School of Social Work. She is the author of the chapbooks Drapetomania (2015), Only Shallow (2020), BC (2020), the full-length collection Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (2018), and A Beauty Has Come (2023). She is a student at The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, training to become a psychoanalyst.