Events

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