Inaugural Afternoon With Elizabeth Alexander (Free admission - No tickets required)

Sunday, Nov. 08, 5:00 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

 

Author(s) and Guest(s)

Elizabeth Alexander

Long before Elizabeth Alexander wrote and delivered President Barack Obama’s inaugural poem “Praise Song for the Day,” she was an award-wining poet, essayist and scholar. Her verse, rhythmic and emotionally nuanced, “explores such issues as sex, race, history and family ties,” as Jeffrey Trachtenberg noted in The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently American Sublime (2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. A young adult poetry collection, Miss Crandall’s School for Young Misses and Little Misses of Color (written with Marilyn Nelson) won the 2008 Connecticut Book Award. She is a professor of African American Studies at Yale University. Graywolf Press has published "Praise Song for the Day" as a small book in English and Spanish.

Schedule
Sunday, Nov. 08, 5:00 p.m. Free

Location

Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

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