Dawes

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 […]

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