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Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) [1] is an American poet, writer, and literary scholar who has served as the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018. Previously, Alexander was a professor for 15 years at Yale University, where she taught poetry and chaired the African American studies department.
Elizabeth Alexander’s careful, precise poetry and her awareness of history, especially African American history, as well as her personal friendship with the Obamas, made her a natural choice as President Obama’s inaugural poet.
Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is also is president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.
2 giorni fa · She is the current President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and lives in New York City. Elizabeth Alexander - Elizabeth Alexander was born in 1962 in Harlem, New York, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
23 mag 2022 · Elizabeth Alexander is many things. She’s a poet, a philanthropist, an educator, and an intellectual, but most of all, she’s a visionary. In her six books of poetry, Alexander is an explorer...
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17 gen 2017 · A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural. By Elizabeth Alexander. January 17, 2017. At Barack Obama’s first Inauguration, the poet Elizabeth Alexander read “Praise Song for the Day,”...
19 giu 2020 · Elizabeth Alexander in Manhattan. Her recent essay for The New Yorker grapples with what it means for a new generation of African-Americans to be able to access and process black death on new...
