Quick Hit: Teen Voices interviews Elizabeth Alexander
The fabulous magazine Teen Voices had a chance to interview poet Elizabeth Alexander - who read yesterday at the inauguration. Check it out!
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Did anyone LIKE that poem? I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm just curious. Her delivery was strange as heck, too. I actually liked Joseph "The Red man can get ahead man" Lowry's benediction better. That being said, I'm sure she was chosen for some reason. Maybe I just have no taste when it comes to poetry.
No, you're not alone. My writer friend and I were discussing how it wasn't particularly well-written or inspiring. My friend had a slightly harsher opinion than I do, but either way, it doesn't come anywhere near Robert Frost's poem for JFK's Inauguration.
I think choosing an already existing poem that fits the occasion is always a better choice. I haven't seen too many commissioned poems turn out well.
In a fantastic way very much, such verses very much like me, such arrangement of words, intonations, the French pathetics. I in admiration! Fairly! Verses are simply faultless, such quintessence of Grenoble. The form and giving - above any praises! And people to whom verses do not like, simply pity idiots, laymen.