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Event Name:

Elizabeth Alexander: Poetry Reading

Address:

58 W 10th St.
New York, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Wed Mar 31 2010 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Wed Mar 31 2010 at 8:30 PM

Hosting Organization:

NYU Creative Writing Program

Contact Name:

April Naoko Heck

Contact Email Address:

creative.writing@nyu.edu

Contact Phone Number:

212-998-8816

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Event Cost:

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Event Description:

The New Salon: Poets in Conversation Elizabeth Alexander has published five books of poems including "American Sublime," which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the American Library Association’s “Notable Books of the Year.” Most recently, she composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The poem has recently been published as a small book from Graywolf Press. In conversation with Alice Quinn. Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America