Today, poet Richard Blanco joined the likes of Robert Frost and Maya Angelou, taking a national stage to recite what was the country’s fifth inaugural poem. President John F. Kennedy began the tradition, commissioning Frost’s “The Gift Outright” for his 1961 swearing in. Since then, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have decided to place poetry […]
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