Left of Black Summer Special (vol. 1):  Poet and Yale Professor Elizabeth Alexander Talks Black Studies, Black Poetry and the Art of Archibald Motley

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in the Left of Black studios by Elizabeth Alexander, the Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of African American Studies & Professor American Studies & English at Yale University. A widely published poet and essayist, Alexander is the author of the classic The Venus Hottentot, American Sublime (a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize), and the recent Crave Radiance.  She is also the author of the  collection of essays The Black Interior.

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