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Elizabeth Alexander receives
the 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize

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Elizabeth Alexander's
Praise Song for the Day
published as a children's book

  Harper Collins Children's
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Elizabeth Alexander addresses
the incoming Yale University
freshman class

  Monday, August, 29, 2011
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Elizabeth Alexander conducts
the White House Poetry Workshop
with First Lady Michelle Obama

  Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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Elizabeth Alexander releases
“Crave Radiance:
New and Selected Poems 1990-2010

  Press Release from Graywolf Press
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Elizabeth Alexander
featured in Publisher's Weekly

  Galley-of-the-Day: Crave Radiance by Elizabeth Alexander
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Elizabeth Alexander presented
with the Anisfield-Wolf Prize

  Press Release from the Cleveland Foundation
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Elizabeth Alexander
Remembers Lucille Clifton


  The New Yorker: Remembering Lucille Clifton
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  NPR: Poet Lucille Clifton: ‘Everything is Connected’
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Elizabeth Alexander guides
listeners on a poetry tour of
Washington, D.C.

  Poetry Foundation’s Walking Tour of Washington, D.C.,
  narrated by Elizabeth Alexander
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Elizabeth Alexander
Selected as Inaugural Poet


  Elizabeth Alexander reads original poem, Praise Song for the Day
  at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, January 20, 2009


  NPR: Poet Calls Writing Inaugural Poem A “Challenge”
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  NPR: Weaving Words for the Inaugural Poem
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  The Huffington Post:
  Elizabeth Alexander’s Praise Song for a Day is #1
  on the Poetry Foundation’s Bestseller list of 2009
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  Inauguration Press
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