George Washington University News

Inauguration opened a new world for poet (Miami Herald)

Nov 8 2009

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. The parents who took their 1-year-old daughter to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech. The husband who emptied ...

Riding on a dream (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)

Nov 8 2009

You might think this is just a "local girl makes good" story. That would be a mistake.

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