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Inauguration opened a new world for poet


Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander's Praise Song for the Day , the inauguration poem that helped deliver Barack Obama into office, was in the making for almost half a century, surely for three generations: The grandmother who sang lullabies, poetry set to music. Full Article at Miami Herald

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