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This month we celebrate the work of Elizabeth Alexander and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Both women are poets, writers, scholar
The Charis CircleSeptember 23, 2026

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This month we celebrate the work of Elizabeth Alexander and Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

Both women are poets, writers, scholars, and public intellectuals. In their new work, Alexander's Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales, and Gumbs' Primary: After and With Alma Thomas, each mines the spaces where visual arts and letters meet. Each writer asks us to consider how loving and living with art might make us more loving and free people. ⁠ ⁠ Join us on Friday, September 25th at 7pm at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum to celebrate Elizabeth Alexander (@elizabethalexanderbooks) with Jericho Brown (@jerichobrown1) and Tuesday, September 29th at 7:30pm at the Winter Theater at Agnes Scott College to celebrate Alexis Pauline Gumbs (@alexispauline) with Bettina Judd (@bettinajudd). More information at the link in our bio! ⁠ (@jwji_emory) (@spelmanlmw)(@asccreativearts)⁠
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