Has poetry -- like the environment, health care, disarmament, and civil liberties - become a Democratic monopoly?
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 ...
Steve Young | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
The speculation is that Barack Obama has found his inaugural poet. Not necessarily Robert Frost or even Robert Pinsky, the nearly anonymous bard rec...
John Lundberg | Posted 01.14.2009 | Living
The Associated Press reported last week on a growing expectation in the poetry community that Obama will follow in the tradition of Kennedy, Carter an...
AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — John F. Kennedy was the first American president to include a poet in his inauguration, and Bill Clinton was only the second. Now,...
Steven G. Kellman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics