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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Alexander: Signals Across Vast Distances
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin
  Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
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DESCRIPTION:An evening with Elizabeth Alexander and Jonathan Capehart.\nht
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>A call to courage and connection f
 rom prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities Elizabeth 
 Alexander.</strong></p>\n<p>Join the Library and Politics and Prose Bookst
 ore for a conversation with acclaimed poet Elizabeth Alexander. In convers
 ation with journalist Jonathan Capehart\, Alexander will discuss her new b
 ook of essays <em>Signals Across Vast Distances</em>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Books
  will be available for purchase at the event.&nbsp\;<br />&nbsp\; &nbsp\;<
 /p>\n<h4>About the book</h4>\n<p>&ldquo\;We send signals across vast dista
 nces\, hoping to connect.&rdquo\; In luminous prose\, Elizabeth Alexander 
 embraces that hope\, offering resources&mdash\;life wisdom\, historical pe
 rspective\, poetry\, and art&mdash\;to embolden us to &ldquo\;reach beyond
  ourselves.&rdquo\; Her close readings of visionary poets\, interwoven wit
 h extraordinary visual art\, reveal how poetry and art can sustain us. Her
  stories of connection&mdash\;as a daughter\, wife\, widow\, and mother\; 
 as an aspiring dancer\; on the dais at President Obama&rsquo\;s inaugurati
 on\; in the hospital with her college-age son&mdash\;deeply move us. She s
 hines a light on our nation&rsquo\;s painful history of inequity\, recount
 ing in her Class Day speech to Yale students the thwarted dream destroyed 
 in 1831 of a Black college in New Haven\; she calls for a reckoning of cen
 turies of injustice in historical memory and memorializing. She asks\, Wha
 t will we each do to make the dream of freedom\, for everyone\, real? Ever
 y page conveys her hope that we recognize the abundant resources we carry 
 within: language\, history\, community\, family\, our bodies\, our stories
 \, love itself.&nbsp\;Signals Across Vast Distances&nbsp\;empowers us&mdas
 h\;in Alexander&rsquo\;s closing words&mdash\;to&nbsp\;lead with love.<br 
 />&nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<h4>About the author<br />&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</h
 4>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor
 /dclibrary/Elizabeth_Alexander.png" width="250" height="250" alt="" style=
 "float: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Elizabeth Alexander</strong>
 &nbsp\;is a prize-winning and&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;best-selling auth
 or\, renowned poet\, educator\, scholar\, and cultural advocate. Her memoi
 r\,&nbsp\;The Light of the World\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize a
 nd National Book Critics Circle Award. She composed and recited &ldquo\;Pr
 aise Song for the Day&rdquo\; for President Barack Obama&rsquo\;s 2009 ina
 uguration and is currently president of the Mellon Foundation\, the nation
 &rsquo\;s largest funder of the arts\, culture\, and humanities. She lives
  and works in New York City.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>
 \n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p
 >&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<h4>About the conversation partner<br />&nbsp\;&nbsp\
 ;</h4>\n<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dcl
 ibrary/JCapehart_headshot.jpg" width="250" height="250" alt="" style="floa
 t: left\; margin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  <strong>Jonathan Capehart</strong> serves as a regular contributor to the
  PBS NewsHour. Capehart is a member of The Washington Post editorial board
  and hosts the "Cape Up" podcast. and Washington Post Live's "First Look."
  He also served as a Spring 2019 fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Pol
 itics and Public Service. In 2014\, Advocate magazine ranked Capehart 9th 
 out of 50 of the most influential LGBT people in media. That same year\, M
 ediaite named him one of the "Top 9 Rising Stars of Cable News." Equality 
 Forum made him a 2018 LGBT History Month Icon. Capehart has twice made the
  OUT 100 list. In May 2018\, the publisher of The Washington Post awarded 
 him an "Outstanding Contribution Award" for his opinion writing and "Cape 
 Up" podcast interviews.</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/
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