Poetry finds its voice in this Yale University Professor who has been honored by President Barack Obama. She has been a good servant of the craft for many years. she has been commissioned to write and deliver a poem during the inauguration.
There is no doubt that her books are going to be purchased like hot potatoes on various web sites and in bookstores. After reaching millions on January 20, her audience will increase.
Ms. Alexander’s first book of poems, "The Venus Hottentot," was published in 1990. Ms. Alexander’s other books of poetry are "Body of Life" (1996), "Antebellum Dream Book" (2001) and "American Sublime" (2005), one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also published two books of essays, "The Black Interior" (2003) and "Power & Possibility" (2007).
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
Barack Obama's Inauguration Day Schedule
Inauguration Day Schedule
Events for Obama's Inaugural on Jan. 20
9 a.m.: Morning Worship Service
10 a.m.: Procession to the Capitol
11:15 a.m.: Vice President's Swearing-In Ceremony
11:30 am: President's Swearing-In Ceremony,
Noon: Obama's Inaugural Address
1 p.m.: Departure of the Outgoing President
1:30 p.m.: Inaugural Luncheon
2:30 p.m.: Inaugural Parade
7:30 p.m.: Inaugural Balls
—All times EST and approximate
Events for Obama's Inaugural on Jan. 20
9 a.m.: Morning Worship Service
10 a.m.: Procession to the Capitol
11:15 a.m.: Vice President's Swearing-In Ceremony
11:30 am: President's Swearing-In Ceremony,
Noon: Obama's Inaugural Address
1 p.m.: Departure of the Outgoing President
1:30 p.m.: Inaugural Luncheon
2:30 p.m.: Inaugural Parade
7:30 p.m.: Inaugural Balls
—All times EST and approximate
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Strong Men of Purpose: T.D. Jakes Cries over Obama's Inauguration. And So Does Rick Warren
Strong Men Who Cry Over the Inauguration
Colin Powell cries
Rick Warren Cries
T.D. Jakes cries
Sidney Poitier cries
Civil Rights Leaders Cry
Over the inauguration of Barack Obama
As the 44th President of the United States of America
Hip Hop artists cry
Musicians and actors Cry
Mothers and parents cry
Children cry over this moment in history
Colin Powell cries
Rick Warren Cries
T.D. Jakes cries
Sidney Poitier cries
Civil Rights Leaders Cry
Over the inauguration of Barack Obama
As the 44th President of the United States of America
Hip Hop artists cry
Musicians and actors Cry
Mothers and parents cry
Children cry over this moment in history
Friday, December 26, 2008
Ode to Elizabeth Alexander, Barack Obama's Inauguration Poet (2008)
Ode to Elizabeth Alexander, (jjc-2008)
Inaugural Poet, Barack Obama 2008
First things first, congratulations on your selection!
You deserve this great honor. Your body of works is your proof
You are ready for the task. All you have to do is to get it done
Are you scared? How are you generating these great ideas for the occasion?
You may not need my advice now. It would send you all the way up to the roof
Bear in mind that this event is not all about you, but it depends on your tone
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Remember your own words to NPR's Melissa Block as you are getting ready to compose and recite this poem.
"I've been trying out phrases and ideas and meditating and looking through scraps of things that I've been noting," she says. "It's been a time of tremendous feeling and tremendous thought."
"In that moment, really I am the vessel for the poem," she says. "It's not about the poet at that moment, it's about the poem. So the pressure — the challenge — is to write a poem that can serve … all of those expectant, gathered millions and to let the poem be what calms my nerves when I am up there. To let myself remember that I am there to deliver these words and these words have been commissioned to deliver a very, very amazing moment."
Yale Poet Elizabeth Alexander Prepares Poem To Read to Thrill at Obama Inauguration: Who is She?
What a great honor for this professor to be selected to read her own composition on January 20, 2009! Her dream will finally come true.
Elizabeth Alexander, professor of African-American studies at Yale University, was chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to compose and read a poem for his inauguration on Jan. 20.
"I'm completely thrilled and deeply, deeply honored," Alexander said Thursday.
Alexander's mother is a historian specializing in African-American women's history at George Washington University. Her father was a presidential civil rights adviser and secretary of the Army.
"The civil rights movement was fully alive in our home," Alexander said.
Even though she is a friend of the Obamas, it is her experience, craft and contributions that helped her get selected for this honor.
Check this out here or go to her website: http://www.elizabethalexander.net/home.html
"Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher. She is the author of four books of poems, The Venus Hottentot, Body of Life, Antebellum Dream Book, and American Sublime, which was one of three finalists for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. She is also a scholar of African-American literature and culture and recently published a collection of essays, The Black Interior. She has read her work across the U.S. and in Europe, the Caribbean, and South America, and her poetry, short stories, and critical prose have been published in dozens of periodicals and anthologies...."
Elizabeth Alexander is a very accomplished writer, poet and essayist. She will deliver for this great occasion. In an interview on NPR last week, she said she is going to prepare a short but very intense poem.
Elizabeth Alexander was born in 1962 in Harlem, New York, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Boston University (where she studied with Derek Walcott), and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her collections of poetry include American Sublime (Graywolf Press, 2005), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Antebellum Dream Book (2001); Body of Life (1996); and The Venus Hottentot (1990).
Alexander’s critical work appears in her essay collection, The Black Interior (Graywolf, 2004). She also edited The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (Graywolf, 2005) and Love’s Instruments: Poems by Melvin Dixon (1995). Her poems, short stories, and critical writing have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, The Village Voice, The Women's Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Her work has been anthologized in over twenty collections, and in May of 1996, her verse play, Diva Studies, premiered at the Yale School of Drama...."
Monday, December 22, 2008
Barack Obama Commissioned a Poem from Yale Professor, Elizabeth Alexander: Who is This Poet?
Mr. Barack Obama's selection of a poet such as Elizabeth Alexander for his inauguration shows that the arts will be important to his administration. At least, for a day, poetry will be on everybody's mind. January 20 will reveal the poem that Ms. Elizabeth has been working to celebrate the occasion. This occasional poem should also appeal to the future, said the bard of the south Side.
Who is Ms. Alexander?
Ms. Alexander was born in Harlem, where her father’s family was rooted, but grew up in Washington, where she attended Georgetown Day School and Sidwell Friends, then Yale. Politics, she said, was “in the drinking water in my house.” Her father, Clifford, was a civil rights adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson and was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was the first black to be named secretary of the Army and chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Her mother, Adele, teaches African-American women’s history at George Washington University. Her brother, Mark, teaches at Seton Hall Law School and served as policy director to Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign in 2000. An expert in campaign finance, he was a senior adviser to Mr. Obama’s campaign and is a member of his transition team.
Ms. Alexander has been on the faculty of several universities, including the University of Chicago, where she taught creative writing and African-American literature and won the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. It is there in the 1990s that she met Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Who is Ms. Alexander?
Ms. Alexander was born in Harlem, where her father’s family was rooted, but grew up in Washington, where she attended Georgetown Day School and Sidwell Friends, then Yale. Politics, she said, was “in the drinking water in my house.” Her father, Clifford, was a civil rights adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson and was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was the first black to be named secretary of the Army and chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Her mother, Adele, teaches African-American women’s history at George Washington University. Her brother, Mark, teaches at Seton Hall Law School and served as policy director to Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign in 2000. An expert in campaign finance, he was a senior adviser to Mr. Obama’s campaign and is a member of his transition team.
Ms. Alexander has been on the faculty of several universities, including the University of Chicago, where she taught creative writing and African-American literature and won the Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. It is there in the 1990s that she met Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Long-range, Free-verse Poet, Donald Finkel Died Of Complications of Alzheimer's Disease
Let his sould rest in peace! Here are some of his books:
"His books were published almost exclusively by Atheneum. Among his 14 volumes of poetry are “Simeon” (1964), “A Joyful Noise” (1966), “The Garbage Wars” (1970) and “What Manner of Beast” (1981). In 2003, Mid-List Press published Mr. Finkel’s collection “Not So the Chairs: Selected and New Poems.”
The title poem of “Not So the Chairs” opens this way:
The tables slept on their feet
like horses
could wait there
forever if commanded
no matter what men set on them
a strong back was all it took
and a little patience
the beds never got up at all
pampered in linens
sprawling in perfumed chambers
while on their breasts the gentry
shrieked and sweated
muffling from time to time a sigh
in a diffident pillow
"His books were published almost exclusively by Atheneum. Among his 14 volumes of poetry are “Simeon” (1964), “A Joyful Noise” (1966), “The Garbage Wars” (1970) and “What Manner of Beast” (1981). In 2003, Mid-List Press published Mr. Finkel’s collection “Not So the Chairs: Selected and New Poems.”
The title poem of “Not So the Chairs” opens this way:
The tables slept on their feet
like horses
could wait there
forever if commanded
no matter what men set on them
a strong back was all it took
and a little patience
the beds never got up at all
pampered in linens
sprawling in perfumed chambers
while on their breasts the gentry
shrieked and sweated
muffling from time to time a sigh
in a diffident pillow
Friday, November 21, 2008
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Underdogs to WONDERDOGS: Fresno State's Road to Omaha and the College World Series Championship (wonderdogsbook.com)
The Rise to The Top
Underdogs to Wonderdogs Poem
Odes to the Wonderdogs
The baseball season started just like any other season
With young guys too eager to play the game,
Please their parents, friends, and coaches
Through hard work and determination, an unlikely group of players
Ended up making a team. Their strengths overcame their weaknesses
Yet, the struggles to be the World Series Champions threatened them all
How to be the top dogs without the team's best pitcher?
How to advance to the College World Series Championships
Without winning the Western Athletic Conference Tournament?
The best underdog story needed a writer and the organized drive
Of dedicated players such as Tommy Mendonca, Steve Detwiler
"It's mind over matter. It's just a little pain...
The Pain is temporary. Pride is forever," said Detwiler
In the end, we, Americans, like underdog stories
We like the coming from behind to win it all
Congratulations to the Fresno State Bulldogs
For making a University, two sister cities and a Nation proud!
It was the preview of one of the greatest underdog stories
That this nation would know in just one year
Barack Obama made history by becoming the 44th President of the U.S.A
Indeed, the seeds of victory and success are spread in small communities
Such as Fresno and Clovis, CA. You can see them at Fresno State every season too!
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It is a great story that needs to be told and repeated. It is a book with great potential.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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Other Cover and Title for "Young Man, Go West: Shop, Dance, Eat, Pray, and Love
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"Young Man, Go West and The Pursuit of Success and Happiness: Shop, Dance, Eat, Pray, Love And Reach Spiritual Fulfillment" is a book about the joys of living, working and connecting with loved ones. It is about our fears such as the fear of packing up and traveling to an unknown place, the fears of falling and failing, the fears of isolation and the fears of letting go and losing it all. This is a book to share with others. Most importantly, it is about loving, dancing, shopping, eating and exploring! Even in tough economic times, we can learn to survive and triumph once more. This is a book of hope in desperate times!
"Young Man, Go West and The Pursuit of Success and Happiness: Shop, Dance, Eat, Pray, Love And Reach Spiritual Fulfillment" is a book about the joys of living, working and connecting with loved ones. It is about our fears such as the fear of packing up and traveling to an unknown place, the fears of falling and failing, the fears of isolation and the fears of letting go and losing it all. This is a book to share with others. Most importantly, it is about loving, dancing, shopping, eating and exploring! Even in tough economic times, we can learn to survive and triumph once more. This is a book of hope in desperate times!
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Monday, November 10, 2008
The Audacity of Hope Poetry : "Young Man, Go West..."
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Description:
"Young Man, Go West and The Pursuit of Success and Happiness: Shop, Dance, Eat, Pray, Love And Reach Spiritual Fulfillment" is a book about the joys of living, working and connecting with loved ones. It is about our fears such as the fear of packing up and traveling to an unknown place, the fears of falling and failing, the fears of isolation and the fears of letting go and losing it all. This is a book to share with others. Most importantly, it is about loving, dancing, shopping, eating and exploring! Even in tough economic times, we can learn to survive and triumph once more. This is a book of hope in desperate times!
Description:
"Young Man, Go West and The Pursuit of Success and Happiness: Shop, Dance, Eat, Pray, Love And Reach Spiritual Fulfillment" is a book about the joys of living, working and connecting with loved ones. It is about our fears such as the fear of packing up and traveling to an unknown place, the fears of falling and failing, the fears of isolation and the fears of letting go and losing it all. This is a book to share with others. Most importantly, it is about loving, dancing, shopping, eating and exploring! Even in tough economic times, we can learn to survive and triumph once more. This is a book of hope in desperate times!
The Audacity of Hope Poetry
The Audacity of Hope
Obama Poetry of Change: Yes, We Can
(jc)
Oh death, where is your power?
Oh discrimination, prejudice, Jim Crow Laws
Where is your shame-causing sting?
Oh police dog bites and state-sanctioned brutality,
Where is your staying authority and durability?
Oh pessimism, where is your monstrous attraction?
Oh racism and exploitation, where is your defeating purpose?
Oh haydees, where is your burning fire?
Oh hopeless souls, where are your faith and sense of history?
Obama Poetry of Change: Yes, We Can
(jc)
Oh death, where is your power?
Oh discrimination, prejudice, Jim Crow Laws
Where is your shame-causing sting?
Oh police dog bites and state-sanctioned brutality,
Where is your staying authority and durability?
Oh pessimism, where is your monstrous attraction?
Oh racism and exploitation, where is your defeating purpose?
Oh haydees, where is your burning fire?
Oh hopeless souls, where are your faith and sense of history?
Poetic Inspiration: Rosa Parks Poetry of Hope
Rosa parks sat
So Martin Luther King
Could stand and walk
Martin Luther King Walked
So Obama could run
Obama ran so we can call hope and fly
And Obama hopes so he can reshape America's international image
So we all can work together to rebuild our economy, neighborhoods and schools
So we can live together in harmony despite all our problems
So Martin Luther King
Could stand and walk
Martin Luther King Walked
So Obama could run
Obama ran so we can call hope and fly
And Obama hopes so he can reshape America's international image
So we all can work together to rebuild our economy, neighborhoods and schools
So we can live together in harmony despite all our problems
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