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The Associated Press, gearing up for the inauguration and Elizabeth Alexander’s performance as Poet-in-Chief, solicited a few other major American poets to write a lick or two for the incoming president.  More here.

“Charles Simic, another former poet laureate, said ‘it’s impossible to say yes or no. … I can’t write to order. … When do you need it by?’”

“His good intentions didn’t bear fruit.”

Oh, Charlie.

Via Gawker:  Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, accused of corruption and trying to ’sell” Barack Obama’s Senate seat, recited Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” on television today.

He’s a decent reader.  Check out the video here.

Via Poetry Hut:  In this month’s Atlantic we’re treated to musing on the poetry of Abraham Lincoln.  The Atlantic links out to a NY Times piece from May 2008 that reprinted two Obama poems that the President-elect published in an Occidental College literary journal in his early adult years, “Pop” and “Undeground”.  Incidentally, I like the phrase “musty, wet pelts” in “Underground”.