Praise Song For the inauguration by Elizabeth Alexander!
She read a poem that she wrote specially for the inauguration. It was called Praise Song for the Day.
She read a poem at Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
Maya Angelou wrote and recited the Inaugural Poem at Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993. The poem was titled "On the Pulse of Morning" and addressed themes of unity, resilience, and hope for the future.
Robert Frost read a poem at Kennedy's inauguration. He was quite old and feeble and the sun was in his eyes so he had difficulty getting his poem read.
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The first poem was read by Robert Frost at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. His poem was hand-written and the glare of the sun on snow was so bright that he could not read his original poem for the occasion, so he recited a different poem from memory.
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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
to compose a poem to read at Clinton's inauguration.
Maya Angelou won four Pulitzer Prizes and was the first person to read a poem at a U.S. Presidential inauguration.
Yes, Maya Angelou delivered the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, not at Barack Obama's inauguration.