Yale professor, inaugural poet, essayist and, most recently, memoirist Elizabeth Alexander joins us for a discussion about Sly Stone, writing through catastrophe, and improvising on stage with Jason Moran. (Also, she says she likes Drake.)

Here is a review of her soon-to-be-released memoir "The Light of the World" in the Los Angeles Times: www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/…150405-story.html