AUDIENCE COMMENTS
“Quite extraordinary! Elizabeth was wonderful with her remarks. Everyone LOVED her, from the classics Dean to the Chair of the board to the students.”
“Elizabeth Alexander was one of the VERY BEST speakers that we have ever had, and I'd be happy to tell anyone that. She was engaging, eloquent, wonderful with the Q&A and truly inspirational.”
“Elizabeth's lecture was pitched perfectly. The Students who attended the public lecture were very excited and engaged and asked lots of meaningful questions.
There was also about twenty minutes or so of informal conversation during which Elizabeth took pictures with students and signed copies of her books”
“Elizabeth Alexander was wonderful in every way. Her remarks at both the panel and the reading were fascinating. She is extraordinarily articulate-even for a poet!-and that, together with an immensely likable personality, is a heady brew. Her presence is magnetic, and she was very generous with her time and attention”
“She was wonderful.... Warm, inviting.... Nothing but accolades.”
“Dr. Alexander gave a thought-provoking and dynamic talk, and I continued to receive enthusiastic feedback for weeks after. Her visit is already generating lots of excitement and energy, and we're looking forward to her return.”
“Elizabeth Alexander brought a new level of sophistication to our celebratory event for the James Baldwin Scholars Program. She delivered a thoughtful and moving talk on James Baldwin's legacy and its impact on a new generation of students, writers, and intellectuals. It was very special.”
“This stellar poet, one whose poems choreograph narratives that clearly demonstrate a rare imagination and sureness, presented a workshop and reading to a public community. Her poems and the reading of her work was an experience that her audience saw as being real and revelatory.”
“Elizabeth makes immediate and deep connections with audiences diverse in knowledge and background. They come away wanting to know more about her, her own work, her subject matter. She is a brilliant yet warm and accessible poet, speaker and interpreter of poetry--hers and others.”
“Her reading was stunning, marked by her easy wit, her intense sense of history and place, her clear pleasure in language and the art of presenting poetry, and her sheer brilliance as a poet and thinker. . . [She] was a beacon of good humor and joy during the entire festival. . . Calabash has a policy of re-inviting guests only after four years have passed since their last visit. We have been sorely tested on that rule by Elizabeth Alexander. I fear we may have break our rule and have her back before 2011!”