newsbusters.org - 1/19/2009
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For the fourth time in modern history, a presidential inauguration ceremony will include an official poet. Barack Obama has tapped Yale African-American Studies professor Elizabeth Alexander to compose an original poem for the historic occasion of welcoming America’s first black president.
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nytimes.com - 1/25/2009
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PRESIDENT Obama did not offer his patented poetry
in his Inaugural Address . He did not add
to his cache of quotations in Bartlett’s. He did not recreate J.F.K.’s inaugural, or Lincoln’s second, or F.D.R.’s first. The great orator was mainly at his ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - No Time for Poetry
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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There's little I disagree with in Michael Waldman's
post or in his article on democracy for Democracy
, and yet if it were a box of ideas, I would be unable to resist the temptation to dump it out and repack it differently. The article brought ...
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... !!) Brent Bozell III allows that Alexander "won’t read a pickled private-parts poem at the inauguration." But! "It’s not only sex, but race, that offers controversy in this appointed poet." Intriguing! Tell us more, ...
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