Poetry and the Inauguration

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 21, 2021

Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who read her own poem at Pres. Obama's first inauguration, reflects on the young poet Amanda Gorman's poem from President Biden's inauguration, and the moment we're in.

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