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If you are asking about the poet who read the poem at the president's January 2013 inauguration, that was Richard Blanco. If you are asking who the most recent U.S. Poet Laureate is, his name is William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin; he was selected in 2010.

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Maya Angelou read a poem at his inauguration in 1993.

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