Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander, on a visit to the Watts Towers in January, says monuments are a critical part of the civic landscape. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) She also came ...

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Elizabeth Alexander ’84, a decorated poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and cultural advocate who was a professor of African American studies, American studies, and English at Yale for 15 years, will ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For artist Elizabeth Alexander, beauty is a tool for subverting domestic order. Her new exhibition at K Contemporary is, no doubt, lovely to look at. The ...

When future applicants seek funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest supporter of the arts and humanities in the US, they will be evaluated based on one principal question: would ...

Spicy curry and spaghetti with ‘100 onions’: Poet shares beloved dishes of her late husband From Spicy Red Lentil and Tomato Curry to Spaghetti with 100 Onions (not really!), poet Elizabeth Alexander ...

Poet Elizabeth Alexander was chosen Wednesday to read at Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. Alexander, the author of five books of poetry and a professor of African-American studies at Yale ...

The trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have elected alumna and former Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander to be the foundation’s next president, effective March 2018. Alexander, a renowned ...

You could say Elizabeth Alexander was raised among monuments. Growing up in Washington, D.C., she was surrounded by them. When she was a toddler, her parents took her to the March on Washington in ...

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