Elizabeth Alexander
A People’s Poem for the Inaguration: Poets Respond
“Say ‘nation.’ In the wake of quarrels. Say ‘hope.’” That original first line from poet Kwame Dawes, read on the program earlier this week, kicked off our crowd-sourced inaugural poetry project. Takeaway listeners have been chiming in with the subsequent lines of the poem on Twitter using the hashtag #prezpoem. Elizabeth Alexander is chair of the African-American […]
