Google celebrates poet Meena Alexander with a Doodle

A wonderful scholar, Alexander started faculty at age 13. She attended College of Khartoum and, whereas there, she had her first poems publish in a neighborhood newspaper. The younger poet graduated with a level in English and French. She went on to earn a doctorate in British Romantic literature. Alexander then returned to India and labored college jobs.

Alexander moved to New York to work at Fordham College in 1979. She began as an assistant professor and later turned a distinguished professor of English at each Hunter School and the Graduate Middle of the Metropolis College of New York.

All through this time, she stored writing poetry and her books have been translated into many languages. Alexander was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award from the South Asian Literary Affiliation. The poet died in November 2018.

Her son, Adam Kuruvilla Lelyveld, mentioned, “Mama was an artist and a fighter. She believed deeply within the craft of her work and the seek for one thing akin to fact. She was courageous and adventurous and joyful and sought herself in lots of houses, and within the artwork of poetry.”

The Doodle, illustrated by visitor artist Anjali Vakil, reveals Alexander writing at her desk. Vakil mentioned her principal inspiration for the Doodle was from studying via the poet’s work.

“I may simply see her fiercely hunched over her writing desk, making an attempt to catch phrases that would describe her nomadic life within the late hours of the evening, simply as I did when designing her Google Doodle,” Vakil mentioned.