Elizabeth Alexander is poet, professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies, Yale University. Author of 7 books of poems such as The Venus Hottentot (1990), American Sublime (2005), and Crave Radiance (2010) as well as 2 collections of essays The Black Interior (2004) and Power and Possibility (2007), she was one of the three finalists for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jackson Prize for Poetry, two Pushcart Prizes, and so on. In November 2010, P...