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The President-Elect Selects A Poet

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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
12/20/08

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And erm... shouldn't that read "The President-Elect Selects a Poet"?
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hortense
12/21/08

@ceejeemcbeegee: Fixed!
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
12/20/08

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I totally called this one! Someone owes me 20 bucks!
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bluebears
12/20/08

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Sounds like he has a personal history with her and thats very nice. I would have personally loved Natasha Tretheway she has beautiful poems about (among other things) her experience of growing up mixed race in America.
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raesanni
12/20/08

@bluebears: but elizabeth alexander's poetry is about similar things. she's mixed as well!

i've never read tretheway, but i'll be sure to look up her stuff. a quick google search told me she has a pulitzer prize. i'm guessing she's prob pretty damn good.
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bluebears
12/20/08

@raysanni: funny, I've never read elizabeth alexander I am already looking online for her stuff. :) but yeah tretheway is amazing, the poems she wrote about her mothers murder (by her stepfather) are just so heartbreaking.
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Penny
12/20/08

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I hear the interview with her on NPR, and I was very surprised to hear that she'd only be the third poet awarded with this honor.
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Penny
12/20/08

@Penny Plastic (Archetype): Or fourth? I thought they said third but they might have said there were three before her.

Oh well, either way, it's cool.
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YourScreenplaySucks
12/20/08

@Penny Plastic (Archetype): Do you mean this would only be the fourth time that they had someone write a poem for the inauguration? Or that they usually ask non-poets to write something for the ceremony? Because that sounds dangerous.
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Penny
12/20/08

@Your Screenplay Sucks: [www.npr.org]

If you listen to the story, they say that three poems "exist." They must mean poetry in the proper sense, not readings.
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Jack_Burton
12/20/08

@Penny Plastic (Archetype): Kind of sad, really.

Non-poets get their chance by writing speeches.
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Raspberry Swirly
12/20/08

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I don't like poetry much, but that's a pretty great honor.
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Flowers For Algernon
12/20/08

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I love poets!

And I love inaugural poems.

Also I love Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.

OMG I really need to get tickets to the inauguration.

So far all my state reps have been emailing me back

With Were sorries, Unfortunatelies.
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CollegeBookworm
12/20/08

@Flowers For Algernon: Tickets aren't necessary if you just want to go to the inauguration/parade. You just have to be willing to cram in with the masses at the Mall or along the parade route. Now finding somewhere to stay- that's far more difficult. Every hotel room in DC is booked already. Every. Single. One.
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