Elizabeth Alexander Reads Her Poem “Praise Song for the Day” (Then and Now)

Elizabeth Alexander Reads from Robert Hayden’s “[American Journal]”

Elizabeth Alexander Reads Rita Dove’s “Adolescence—II”

Elizabeth Alexander Reads Her Poem “Race”

Elizabeth Alexander Reads Her Poem “Nineteen”

Elizabeth Alexander Comments on “The Black Back-Ups” by Kate Rushin

Elizabeth Alexander: “I Send Them to Anthologies”

Elizabeth Alexander Comments on “We Wear the Mask”

Elizabeth Alexander Reads “Nikki-Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni

Elizabeth Alexander Comments on “Nikki-Rosa” by Nikki Giovanni

Elizabeth Alexander Reads “The Second Sermon on the Warpland” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Elizabeth Alexander Discusses “The Second Sermon on the Warpland” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Elizabeth Alexander and Kevin Young Read “We Wear the Mask”

Rita Dove and Robin Coste Lewis

Elizabeth Alexander: The Poet and the Riot