Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander will be the fourth poet ever to read at a presidential Inauguration. Alexander spoke to TIME about poetry’s place in American life, her kids’ fundraising efforts on ...

Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem, “Praise Song for the Day,” doesn’t qualify as a great poem, but it might emerge as an important one. As a celebration of the commonplace and an exaltation of the ...

I have to ask: what did you think of the inaugural poem “Praise Song for the Day” by Yale professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander? We’ve been arguing about it most of the day, and I want to throw the ...

Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration (Graywolf); American Sublime (Graywolf) When Elizabeth Alexander presented Barack Obama's inaugural poem, few of us had ...