Podcast Episodes featuring Elizabeth Alexander

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Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Arnold Rampersad — W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Soul

On Being with Krista Tippett - April 04, 2019 08:49 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
A prolific writer on sociology, history, economics, and politics, W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history. His life traced an incredible arc; he was born three years after the end of the Civil War and died on the eve of the March on Washington. In 1...

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Atul Gawande & Elizabeth Alexander

Library Talks - September 19, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
Two writers, two beautiful books, both on the subject of death. Atul Gawande's Being Mortal examines the lengths modern medicine must go to better humanize the final stages of our lives. Elizabeth Alexander's The Light of the World is the memoir of her husband Ficre's sudden and unexpected death...

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman - April 03, 2017 20:00 ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
Debbie talks to poet Elizabeth Alexander about the journey of her extraordinary life and how death makes us think about what we truly value.

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Why your brain loves poetry with poet Elizabeth Alexander

Grow Big Always - September 12, 2016 14:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratings
Want a drug-free consciousness-shifting experience that only takes a minute and has good side-effects? There’s good reason our brains love poetry, people have spoken it for generations way before we wrote stuff down. Poetry is that thing that lifts your brain outside of everyday life and instant...

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Elizabeth Alexander & Hilton Als on Dreams & Obsession

Library Talks - April 05, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
We’re kicking off National Poetry Month with award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander, who came to the Library to celebrate the release of her new memoir, “The Light of the World.” In this provocative conversation with “The New Yorker” writer Hilton Als, Alexander talks about dreams, obsession, an...

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On Being with Krista Tippett - July 23, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Elizabeth Alexander is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. She’s the author of a new memoir, “The Light of the World.” She’s also the author of several books of essays and poetry including “Crave Radiance.” Thi...

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Elizabeth Alexander — Words That Shimmer

On Being with Krista Tippett - July 23, 2015 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Poetry is something many of us seem to be hungry for these days. We’re hungry for fresh ways to tell hard truths and redemptive stories, for language that would elevate and embolden rather than demean and alienate. Elizabeth Alexander shares her sense of what poetry works in us — and in our chi...

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[Unedited] Elizabeth Alexander with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - July 23, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Elizabeth Alexander is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the inaugural Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University. She’s the author of a new memoir, “The Light of the World.” She’s also the author of several books of essays and poetry including “Crave Radiance.” Thi...