Elizabeth Alexander

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““I had written my way through a stretch on the road of my life that was a necessary step forward.””
— Yale News, “I write, says Elizabeth Alexander, to ‘grasp life’ and ‘take you with me’” (2018)
““I didn’t really set out to write a memoir at all.””
— The Harvard Crimson, “Elizabeth Alexander at the Cambridge Public Library” (2015)
““The work of making poems … have to exist without concern from the outside.””
— PBS NewsHour, “Conversation: Poet Elizabeth Alexander” (2010)
““What a gift to go through life being aware that we’ve been given these senses and that you should live in them.””
— Bloodaxe Blogs, “Obama's inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander interviewed by Natasha Trethewey” (2008)
““Poetry is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?””
— The Guardian, “Poet Elizabeth Alexander to read at Obama's inauguration” (2008)
““Eventually, as that built up, I saw that what I had was not discrete poems but rather something … that wanted to be longer.””
— The Harvard Crimson, “Elizabeth Alexander at the Cambridge Public Library” (2015)

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