Poetry at Obama’s Inauguration!

By
Carissa Smith
 – December 18, 2008

For the first time in, well, a long time, the next presidential inauguration will feature a poet, reading. No, I’m not talking about Rick Warren. Yale professor and writer Elizabeth Alexander will follow in the tradition of Robert Frost and Maya Angelou, composing a poem specifically for the occasion. If you’re curious, here are some of her poems.


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About the Author

Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches literature and composition courses there. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46).