# Elizabeth Alexander

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Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. Her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. She composed and recited "Praise Song for the Day…

#34: Poetry Sustains Celebrates the Fall Equinox

Send us Fan Mail Maryam Barrie and I celebrate the Libra Equinox, AKA the Autumnal or Fall Equinox.  “September 2nd” by Wendell Berry  “Equinox” by Elizabeth Alexander  “Autumn Begins in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio” by James Wright  “When Autumn Came” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz  “Song of My House Being Battered b…

September 16, 2026 - Elizabeth Alexander, Goodnow Farms Chocolate, and Patrick Page

Poet, essayist and Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander joins us to talk about her new book, Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales, which moves through poetry, art, history, family and public life. Alexander appears tonight with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the B…

DREAMLEAPERS® with Harriette Cole featuring Dr. Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. Her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. She composed and recited "Praise Song for the Day…

368 | Elizabeth Alexander on Why Democracy Needs Imagination

In all sorts of ways, the modern world makes it difficult to nurture our individual humanity and connect with the humanity of others. The disciplines that try to do so are, naturally enough, the humanities. Poet Elizabeth Alexander's new book, Signals Across Vast Distances, grapples with the quest…

Literature and Life

Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales (WW Norton, 2026), talks about the guidance she's found from literature and how the arts can heal political divides. Photo: Elizabeth Alex…

Elizabeth Alexander's 'Signals Across Vast Distances' encourages readers to reflect and act

In her new book, poet, author and Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander invokes the power of poetry, history and truth to explore courage and love in these tumultuous times. We talk to her about what she says are “the questions poets ask.” Her latest book, “Signals Across Vast Distances: …

No Other People's Children, Elizabeth Alexander - Cambridge Choir

No Other People's Children, Elizabeth Alexander - Cambridge Choir by First Community Church

Sunday Pick: 20th Anniversary celebration with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn | from Design Matters

For the 20th anniversary of Design Matters, Debbie Millman revisits conversations with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn. These excerpts reflect on language, identity, memory, and the lived experience that fuels their work. Together, they reveal poetry a…

Sunday Pick: 20th Anniversary celebration with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn | from Design Matters

For the 20th anniversary of Design Matters, Debbie Millman revisits conversations with renowned poets Eileen Myles, Elizabeth Alexander, Sarah Kay, and Amber Tamblyn. These excerpts reflect on language, identity, memory, and the lived experience that fuels their work. Together, they reveal poetry a…