Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth
“Minnesota Fats Describes His Youth” by Elizabeth Alexander. From Body of Life, published by Tia Chucha Press. Copyright 1996 Elizabeth Alexander. Used by permission of the author.
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Poet Elizabeth Alexander b. 1962
Subjects Eating & Drinking, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture, Activities
Biography
Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, New York, but grew up in Washington, DC, the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairman, Clifford Alexander Jr. She holds degrees from Yale, Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her PhD. Currently the chair of African American Studies at Yale, Alexander is a highly respected teacher and . . .
Poems by Elizabeth Alexander
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SUBJECT Eating & Drinking, Social Commentaries, Popular Culture, Activities
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