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Obama Inaugural Poet

Inaugural Poet Previews Obama Work

NY Times | Posted 01.25.2009 | Politics

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"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...

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Elizabeth Alexander: Obama's Pick For Inaugural Poet

John Lundberg | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living

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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...

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