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Originally Published: December 17, 2008Elizabeth Alexander to Read at Obama Inauguration

Yale professor and celebrated poet of memory and race Elizabeth Alexander has been selected to read as part of Barack Obama's Inaugural Ceremony in January.
Alexander speculated on poets in the age of Obama in the Poetry Foundation's Obamapoetics podcast last November, and now she joins Robert Frost, Miller Williams, and Maya Angelou on the select list of inaugural poets.
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