Inaugural Poet Talks with Stephen Colbert

in Comedy, Literature | January 28th, 2009 1 Comment

Elizabeth Alexander recited one of her own poems at Obama’s inauguration last week and now talks poetry (both highbrow and lowbrow) with Stephen Colbert. All in all, she does a pretty good job of hanging in there.

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  1. rip says . . . | January 28, 2009 / 5:56 pm

    “pretty good job” is an apt description – thanks for posting this :-)

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