The Life of a Poem: Audre Lorde’s ‘Litany for Survival’ in Post-Lacrosse Durham by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
“The Life of A Poem” is a poetic and critical reflection on the relationship between the University and institutionalized economic, physical and sexual violence by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a PhD candidate at Duke University, and a founding member of UBUNTU, an artistic and organizing community that emerged in Durham, NC during the Duke Lacrosse Scandal. In…