Elizabeth Alexander presents at the panel on African American Poetry and the Vernacular Matrix

Elizabeth Alexander and Eleanor Traylor debate the role of black poetry in relation to cultural prescriptions of “blackness”

Elizabeth Alexander reads “Family Stone”

Elizabeth Alexander reads “Butter”

Elizabeth Alexander reads “What I’m Telling You”

Elizabeth Alexander reads “Equinox”

Elizabeth Alexander reads “At the Beach”

Elizabeth Alexander reads “L.A. by Night”