Subject: Yale Event in DC with Poet Elizabeth Alexander - May 17
From: "Association of Yale Alumni" <[email-masked]>
To: "Yale Graduate School Alumni in the DC Area" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 15:35:09 -0400

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to invite you and your guest to a reception hosted by Jon Butler, Dean of the Graduate School, featuring a conversation on poetry with

Elizabeth Alexander, Professor, African American Studies, 
American Studies and English

Monday, May 17, 2010
6:30 - 8:30 pm (Professor Alexander's talk will begin at 7:30)

The Carnegie Institution for Science
1530 P Street NW
Washington, D.C.

Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cash bar
R.S.V.P. by May 10 to [email-masked] or (203) 432-7730

The Carnegie Institution is three blocks from the Dupont Circle metro station. Parking is available at 1616 P Street (between 16th and 17th Streets) in Colonial Parking Lot #372 for $8 for this event. For directions, see http://www.alumniconnections.com/links/link.cgi?l=1293789&h=5308931&e=YALE-20100505085556.

Elizabeth Alexander '84 BA was invited by President Barack Obama to compose and read a poem at his inauguration on January 20, 2009. She is the author of five books of poems, The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), American Sublime (2005), and Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color (2007 with Marilyn Nelson), and two collections of essays, The Black Interior (2004) and Power and Possibility (2007). Professor Alexander is an inaugural recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that "contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954." She earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now chair of the Yale Department of African American Studies.  

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