http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/of-poetry-and-power-reflections-on-the-inauguration/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/of-poetry-and-power-reflections-on-the-inauguration/#comment-6992 LAINE COTE' Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:13:11 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1239#comment-6992 When Elizabeth Alexander took the stage my flaps were open: to let her poem take me where it would to stir and quake and nuture. It did all that and more! But if we're looking for something in and of our own "conception" we needs beware we don't miss what's there . . . . nowpoet@cfl.rr.com When Elizabeth Alexander took the stage
my flaps were open:
to let her poem take me where it would
to stir and quake and nuture.
It did all that and more!
But if we’re looking for something
in and of our own “conception”
we needs beware
we don’t miss what’s there . . . .
nowpoet@cfl.rr.com
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/of-poetry-and-power-reflections-on-the-inauguration/#comment-6991 Aaron Fagan Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:13:13 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1239#comment-6991 Elizabeth Alexander was on the Colbert Report tonight. Elizabeth Alexander was on the Colbert Report tonight.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/01/of-poetry-and-power-reflections-on-the-inauguration/#comment-6990 Aaron Fagan Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:21:46 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1239#comment-6990 “You can’t let the enormity of the occasion get in your way,” said Elizabeth Alexander in the New York Times. Enormity? Interesting word choice. “You can’t let the enormity of the occasion get in your way,” said Elizabeth Alexander in the New York Times.
Enormity? Interesting word choice.
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