Presidential poetry

For only the fourth time in history, poetry was officially a part of the U.S. Presidential inauguration.

So did the piece work for you? (You can find the text of Elizabeth Alexander’s poem here.) How did it hold up to Maya Angelou’s 1993 piece (remember “A rock, a river, a tree…”?) Or Robert Frost’s piece— actually two poems, one he meant to read, the other he switched to when he lost the first in the sun?

And then there was also Miller Williams’ poem at the second Clinton bash.

Your thoughts on how Alexander’s stacked up?