Poems for President Obama

Also via the Wom-Po list, a podcast, Poems for President Obama from the Poetry Foundation. This broadcast dates from the day after the election and features Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith, and Forrest Gander. Each of these very different poets recommends a poem for Barack Obama to read. Their thoughts are interesting, not just for the different ways they celebrate the election of Barack Obama but for the different ways they think about poetry.

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Meanwhile, back in what you might call the real world, but which I won’t, this is a good sign, Obama Wrote Federal Staffers About His Goals. To quote Lambert, “restoring reason to the treatment of civil servants was always perhaps the strongest reason to vote Democrat;” I would say “vote Democratic” but then I’m a purist.

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