Prof.’s poetry wins accolades
2005 Pulitzer finalist wins Jackson Prize
In her poem “Education,” professor Elizabeth Alexander ’84 imagines the life of a Yale student nearly two centuries ago.
“In 1839, to enter University/ The Yale men already knew Cicero,” she writes. “Dalzel’s ‘Graeca Minora,’ then learned more Latin prosody,/ Stiles on astronomy, Dana’s mineralogy.”
The poem comes from a series of 23 poems about the nineteenth-century Amistad slave rebellion. The trial of those involved took place in New Haven. Alexander did extensive research on the rebellion — and on Yale in the mid-19th century — before writing the poems. But she...
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