Poet Elizabeth Alexander to Read at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – On Monday, November 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library poet Elizabeth Alexander will read from her collection of poems. The reading is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Alexander is the author of three poetry collections, Body of Life, The Venus Hottentot and her latest, Antebellum Dream Book. Her poetry and essays have been widely published in magazines including the American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Fence, the Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, and in anthologies including By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry; American Poetry: The Next Generation; and The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. She currently teaches at Yale University.

This event is being sponsored by the College's English department.