Obama Inauguration Poem: David Lehman (VIDEO)
The Associated Press is asking famous poets to write poems for Barack Obama's inauguration. The first is from David Lehman. Watch: ...
The Associated Press is asking famous poets to write poems for Barack Obama's inauguration. The first is from David Lehman. Watch: ...
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 ...
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...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics