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SUMMARY:Signals Across Vast Distances: Elizabeth Alexander
DESCRIPTION:A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion of the arts and humanities Elizabeth Alexander. Interviewed by Mitchell S. Jackson (Survival Math). \nLimited guaranteed seat tickets with book included available; most of the theatre will be first-come first-served with a PBF GA pass.\nAbout Signals Across Vast Distances:\n \nIn this deeply personal book\, Elizabeth Alexander gives us profound and galvanizing lessons from culture and life to move through challenging times. In close readings of visionary and beloved poets and writers—Muriel Rukeyser\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, Audre Lorde\, James Baldwin\, and June Jordan\, among others—Dr. Alexander meditates on how words and values can sustain and inspire us\, interweaving her voice with revelatory works of art by some of our most extraordinary visual artists\, richly reproduced in the book’s pages. \nHer stories of connection—as a daughter\, wife\, widow\, and mother of two sons; reflecting at midlife on her younger days as an aspiring dancer; as a poet at President Obama’s inauguration on the dais alongside her father\, a civil rights pioneer; urging radical welcome in our families\, communities\, and country—engage and move us. Her reflections on the public project of acknowledging historical truths\, a focus of her leadership at the Mellon Foundation\, model courageous action. \nThroughout the book\, Alexander poses questions\, encouraging readers to recognize the abundant resources we carry within or can access: language\, history\, art\, community\, family\, our bodies\, our stories\, and love itself. In luminous and powerful prose\, Signals Across Vast Distances calls us to imagine possibilities\, take courage\, and—in Alexander’s closing words—lead with love.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/signals-across-vast-distances/
LOCATION:Portland’5: Newmark Theatre\, 1111 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction Events,Ticketed Events
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