The young students were washed in that end of year glow where everything is bright, and each day is a gift as life closes in on the season that makes everyone free: summer.
Tanene Allison | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics
It was a poet who gave our nation, and new President, the words that led to our visioning of how this time of potential and possibility could become real.
Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
We spend a lot of time on the Living page focusing on all the different ways we can work on improving and bringing more meaning to our lives. And one ...
Ben Rosen | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living
Let's compare Elizabeth Alexander's poem with one written for an earlier president. I dug up the 77-line poem, "Dedication", that Robert Frost wrote for JFK's 1961 inauguration.
John Lundberg | Posted 02.25.2009 | Living
I hope that, like me, you enjoyed Elizabeth Alexander's reading of her poem "Praise Song for the Day." I've gone back to read it again since the inau...
Karen Bass | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
Just as Martin Luther King's dream could not have endured if it was his alone, President Obama's hope and promise can't endure if we don't help shoulder the burden.
Jane Dwyre Garton | Posted 02.17.2009 | Chicago
Journalists today are often stressed rather than inspired. Bring on the poetry. Bring on new voices. Tell us something that matters with words that tell us about the world, about the human condition.
NY Times | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics
"To have great poetry there must be great audiences, too," Walt Whitman said. He was talking about the quality of a poet's readers. But there is littl...
John Lundberg | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living
Barack Obama has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to read a poem at his inauguration. A well-regarded poet and professor at Yale, Alexander is also a frien...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 01.19.2009 | Media
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Elizabeth Alexander was a toddler in a baby stroller when her parents took her to hear Martin Luther King's historic "I Have ...
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr. | Posted 07.23.2009 | Living