Inaugural Poems

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Excerpt from : Praise Song for the Day (A Poem for Barack Obama's first Presidential Inauguration) by Elizabeth Alexander. January 20, 2009. © Elizabeth Alexander.

Excerpt from : One Today (A Poem for Barack Obama's second Presidential Inauguration) by Richard Blanco. January 21, 2013. © Richard Blanco.

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