What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.

—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965

Alexis De Veaux

Niki Kekos
June 3, 2019

Alexis De Veaux (Professor Emerita, University at Buffalo) is a distinguished writer, visualist and feminist scholar-activist. De Veaux’s award winning works include Warrior Poet, A Biography of Audre Lorde (the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award Nonfiction 2005 and the Lambda Literary Award for Biography 2004) and the novel, Yabo (Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction 2015).

University of Buffalo, Professor Emerita and Independent Scholar