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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Elizabeth Alexander, Poetry Reading</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Monday, October 10, 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Co-Sponsored by Mondays at Beinecke</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Contact: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu">
nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Professor Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher. In 2009, she composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She has published six books of poems, two collections
of essays, and a play. Her book of poems, <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">American Sublime</span></em> (2005), was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the American Library Associations “Notable Books of the Year.”
Her play, “Diva Studies” (1996), was produced at the Yale School of Drama. Professor Alexander is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is the former Chair of the African American Studies Department at Yale University. Her memoir,
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Light of the World,</span></em> was recently released in paperback. For more information visit:
<a href="http://www.elizabethalexander.net/front-page-1/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Alexander.</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This year marks the 75<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection at Beinecke Library! Follow us on Twitter to join the celebration:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://twitter.com/YCAL_JWJ?lang=en"><span style="color:blue">@YCAL_JWJ</span></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YearofJWJ?src=hash&lang=en"><span style="color:blue">#YearofJWJ</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
<span style="color:blue">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library"><span style="color:blue">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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