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TEDxCornellUniversity - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2012 · Education

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Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 National Book Award finalist, "Black Swan," winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and "Poems in Conversation and a Conversation" (2008) with Elizabeth Alexander, who composed and delivered "Praise Song for the Day" for Barack Obama's inauguration. Her work has appeared in such journals as African American Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, and Shenandoah, and in the anthologies Bum Rush the Page, Role Call, Common Wealth, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. She is currently at work on a third collection, the Coal Tar Colors.

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