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Join us for Monday Night at the Lectures with author Elizabeth Alexander. The Penguin Bookshop is the exclusive bookseller at this event. For information and/or ticket sales call 412-622-8866 or visit PITTSBURGHLECTURES.ORG   INAUGURAL POET Elizabeth Alexander’s very public poem, Praise Song for the Day, written for the Obama inauguration, put poetry in the media spotlight. Dr. Alexander is chair of African American Studies at Yale University. She is also a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in New York City and raised in Washington, DC. Alexander has written four books of poems and her most recent, American Sublime, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. “… Poetry (here I hear myself loudest) / is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?”   For more information about Elizabeth Alexander, click on these links: elizabethalexander.net cnn.com elizabethalexander.net/events poets.org newsweek.com