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- An interview with Elizabeth Alexander, who will recite her poem after President Obama’s inaugural address tomorrow. ETA: Here is the text of the poem.
- Jim Fisher at Salon.com on the history of inaugural and occasional poetry.
- Elitist Obama Inaugural Will Feature Poetry (via)
- 1000 inaugural poets project
- Former inaugural poems: Robert Frost’s rather Eurocentric “The Gift Outright” (J.F.K.); Maya Angelou’s “On the Pulse of Morning” (Clinton); Miller Williams’s “Of History and Hope” (Clinton).
- National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke’s “New Year, 2009“
- NPR’s inaugural poems, including Suzan-Lori Parks’s “All The Love For The President-Elect,” Nikki Giovanni’s “Yes We Can, Yes We Can, Yes We Can!” and Calvin Trillin’s “Inauguration Day: Hooray, Hooray!.”
- The Associated Press asked for some unofficial inaugural poems and received poems by Billy Collins, Julia Alvarez, Gary Soto, Yusef Komunyakaa, Alice Walker, David Lehman, Ted Newman, Amiri Baraka and Bob Holman.
