The poem was "The Gift Outright". He started to read a new poem that he had written special for the inauguration, but the sun was in his eyes and he could not see the paper, so he recited from memory a poem he had written some years before.
Robert Frost read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
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It was Maya Angelou , nee Marguerite Ann Johnson before she was married
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In January, 20, 1961 in Washington D.C.
I do not think her will said anything about JFK. There was mention of a copy of JFK's inauguration speech that was autographed by Robert Frost.
Robert Frost had the honor of reading a poem at John Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. So far as I know, he was the first poet to be so honored.
Maya Angelou spoke at Bill Clinton’s presidential inauguration in 1993. She became the first poet to recite at a presidential inauguration since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.
JFK's Iinauguration Day was January 20, 1961.