The tradition of having an inaugural poem began with John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.
No president followed that tradition again until 1993 with Bill Clinton's Inauguration in 1993.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/20/books-inauguration-poetry-tradition
Inaugural Poems in History
https://poets.org/inaugural-poems-history
Winners of Poets.org Inaugural Poem Contest
https://poets.org/us-presidential-inauguration-academy-three-students-inaugural
No president followed that tradition again until 1993 with Bill Clinton's Inauguration in 1993.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/20/books-inauguration-poetry-tradition
Inaugural Poems in History
https://poets.org/inaugural-poems-history
Winners of Poets.org Inaugural Poem Contest
https://poets.org/us-presidential-inauguration-academy-three-students-inaugural
Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden: 2021
Amanda Gorman: "The Hill We Climb"
Text:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem-the-hill-we-climb-full-text.html
The poem in ASL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUAFau403Gg
About the Poet:
https://poets.org/poet/amanda-gorman
https://www.theamandagorman.com
Lesson Plans:
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/learning/lesson-of-the-day-amanda-gorman-and-the-hill-we-climb.html
Scholastic
https://edublog.scholastic.com/post/who-amanda-gorman-meet-youngest-inaugural-poet-american-history
Teaching Tolerance
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/teach-this-the-hill-we-climb-and-the-2021-inauguration
News:
https://www.playbill.com/article/watch-lin-manuel-miranda-surprise-poet-laureate-amanda-gorman-with-sweet-video-message
https://www.cnn.com/videos/style/2021/01/21/amanda-gorman-poet-laureate-interview-inauguration-vpx.cnn
Videos:
Ted Talk: Using your voice is a political choice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaZBgqfEa1E
"Roar"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2_uKaugPI
"The Miracle of Morning"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOieGJl6g4s
"Earthrise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOvBv8RLmo
"Talking Gets us There"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAc3Zr7wFw
Podcast Interview
Voices of Resilience: Poet Amanda Gorman on Inspiration, Leadership and the Path Forward
Presidential Inaugurations of Barack Obama
2013
Richard Blanco: "One Day Today"
Text
poets.org/poem/one-today
Video with Enhanced text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=My1OXaLLMDM
About the Poet:
https://poets.org/poet/richard-blanco
https://richard-blanco.com
Lesson Plans:
Poets.org
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/teach-poem-one-today-richard-blanco
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/introducing-richard-blancos-poem-one-today-through-picture-book
News:
https://poets.org/text/our-people-our-future-richard-blanco-conversation
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/language-matters-obama-inaugural-poet-richard-blanco-says-poetry-can-n1254783
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/biden-inauguration-poems-obama-richard-blanco-amanda-gorman.html
Videos:
U of Miami Commencement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqk1KV2py98&feature=youtu.be
Poet Richard Blanco has an anthem for Americans after El Paso | USA TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zTkttFAHXo
"Como Tú / Like You / Like Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwngwiLrP0
"My Father in English, Indeed"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2u3Rxxydgs
“Translation for Mamá”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZBMJhbaZOI
Text
poets.org/poem/one-today
Video with Enhanced text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=My1OXaLLMDM
About the Poet:
https://poets.org/poet/richard-blanco
https://richard-blanco.com
Lesson Plans:
Poets.org
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/teach-poem-one-today-richard-blanco
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/introducing-richard-blancos-poem-one-today-through-picture-book
News:
https://poets.org/text/our-people-our-future-richard-blanco-conversation
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/language-matters-obama-inaugural-poet-richard-blanco-says-poetry-can-n1254783
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/biden-inauguration-poems-obama-richard-blanco-amanda-gorman.html
Videos:
U of Miami Commencement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqk1KV2py98&feature=youtu.be
Poet Richard Blanco has an anthem for Americans after El Paso | USA TODAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zTkttFAHXo
"Como Tú / Like You / Like Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwngwiLrP0
"My Father in English, Indeed"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2u3Rxxydgs
“Translation for Mamá”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZBMJhbaZOI
2009
Elizabeth Alexander: "Praise Song for the Day
Text:
poets.org/poem/praise-song-day
About the Poet
https://poets.org/poet/elizabeth-alexander
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-alexander
Lesson Plans:
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/whitmans-echoes-inaugural-poem-praise-song-day-elizabeth-alexander
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/incredible-bridges-praise-song-day-elizabeth-alexander
News
https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/how-i-get-it-done-poet-elizabeth-alexander.html
https://lithub.com/elizabeth-alexander-on-the-importance-of-art-and-poetry/
Videos:
“Race”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhhEoCKkRc
"Tending"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-hQYtPnjA
Elizabeth Alexander on African American Poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-8RGRWZ4M
Amanda Gorman reads "Praise Song for a Day"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McBmpiMDCsc
Text:
poets.org/poem/praise-song-day
About the Poet
https://poets.org/poet/elizabeth-alexander
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-alexander
Lesson Plans:
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/whitmans-echoes-inaugural-poem-praise-song-day-elizabeth-alexander
https://poets.org/lesson-plan/incredible-bridges-praise-song-day-elizabeth-alexander
News
https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/how-i-get-it-done-poet-elizabeth-alexander.html
https://lithub.com/elizabeth-alexander-on-the-importance-of-art-and-poetry/
Videos:
“Race”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhhEoCKkRc
"Tending"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-hQYtPnjA
Elizabeth Alexander on African American Poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT-8RGRWZ4M
Amanda Gorman reads "Praise Song for a Day"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McBmpiMDCsc
Presidential Inaugurations of Bill Clinton:
1997
Miller Williams "Of History and Hope"
Text:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/inaug/mon/poem.htm
About the poet
https://poets.org/poet/miller-williams
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/miller-williams
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/miller-williams-1096/
News
https://poets.org/text/miller-lucinda-williams-all-family
https://arktimes.com/entertainment/ae-feature/2015/01/07/six-poems-by-miller-williams
Videos
ASL Translation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsl36NzB3gM
"Compassion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhS75yc4vOs
Definition of poetry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v43shGWVDs
What compels him to write poetry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlPrXP4LhqQ
Friendship with George Haley & sit-ins to protest segregation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9vuR_BUfGU
1993
Maya Angelou: "On the Pulse of the Morning
Text:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48990/on-the-pulse-of-morning
Poem in ASL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GmOh6N5zQ&t=28s
About the Poet
https://poets.org/poet/maya-angelou
https://poets.org/pulitzer-prize-winner-gregory-pardlo-maya-angelou
https://www.biography.com/writer/maya-angelou
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maya-Angelou
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/maya-angelou
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maya-angelou
https://www.mayaangelou.com/biography/
Lesson Plans:
http://www.peacedayphilly.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Maya-Angelou-Lesson-Plan.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons-plans/personal-reflections-on-the-poetry-of-maya-angelou/
http://www.kera.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/KERA_MayaAngelouEducationalToolkit_FINAL.pdf
https://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=5111
News:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/growing-up-maya-angelou-79582387/
https://www.mayaangelou.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/maya-angelou
Videos:
"A Brave and Startling Truth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEfq7wLm7M
"Still I Rise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qviM_GnJbOM a
"I'm a Rainbow in Somebody's Cloud"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOe9ygczcMA
"We wear the mask"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLol9InMlc
"Phenomenal Woman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTR-2kRCXj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCp3WEdxNQs
Maya Angelou on Con Men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybIJEA41yk
Text:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48990/on-the-pulse-of-morning
Poem in ASL
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GmOh6N5zQ&t=28s
About the Poet
https://poets.org/poet/maya-angelou
https://poets.org/pulitzer-prize-winner-gregory-pardlo-maya-angelou
https://www.biography.com/writer/maya-angelou
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maya-Angelou
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/maya-angelou
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maya-angelou
https://www.mayaangelou.com/biography/
Lesson Plans:
http://www.peacedayphilly.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Maya-Angelou-Lesson-Plan.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons-plans/personal-reflections-on-the-poetry-of-maya-angelou/
http://www.kera.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/KERA_MayaAngelouEducationalToolkit_FINAL.pdf
https://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=5111
News:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/growing-up-maya-angelou-79582387/
https://www.mayaangelou.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/maya-angelou
Videos:
"A Brave and Startling Truth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEfq7wLm7M
"Still I Rise"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qviM_GnJbOM a
"I'm a Rainbow in Somebody's Cloud"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOe9ygczcMA
"We wear the mask"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLol9InMlc
"Phenomenal Woman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTR-2kRCXj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCp3WEdxNQs
Maya Angelou on Con Men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VybIJEA41yk
Presidential Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
1961
Robert Frost "The Gift Outright"
Text
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/the-gift-outright-by-robert-frost
https://www.loc.gov/resource/mcc.088/?r=-0.816,0.304,2.633,1.59,0
Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he was going to read because of the sun, so he recited The Gift Outright instead.
Text: Undelivered poem
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/for-john-f-kennedys-inauguration-by-robert-frost-undelivered-poem
Analysis:
https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poem/gift-outright
About the Poet
https://poets.org/poet/robert-frost
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost
https://www.biography.com/writer/robert-frost
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/frost/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-frost
https://www.robertfrost.org/biography.jsp
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/robert-frost/
News
https://poets.org/text/poetry-and-power-robert-frosts-inaugural-reading
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/robert-frost
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/solutions/2021/01/21/amanda-gormans-hill-we-climb-recalls-robert-frost-jfk-inaugural/6657401002/
https://www.newyorker.com/tag/robert-frost
https://www.biography.com/news/john-f-kennedy-inauguration-robert-frost-poem
Videos
"The Road Not Taken"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGB_K_xlHdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrBHd41YqTc
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWcq2-ZA5o
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj7Tm8TtTas
Robert Frost Recites 4 of his poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE64CTUGQpg
Text
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/the-gift-outright-by-robert-frost
https://www.loc.gov/resource/mcc.088/?r=-0.816,0.304,2.633,1.59,0
Robert Frost couldn't read the poem he was going to read because of the sun, so he recited The Gift Outright instead.
Text: Undelivered poem
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/fast-facts-john-f-kennedy/for-john-f-kennedys-inauguration-by-robert-frost-undelivered-poem
Analysis:
https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/poem/gift-outright
About the Poet
https://poets.org/poet/robert-frost
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost
https://www.biography.com/writer/robert-frost
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/frost/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-frost
https://www.robertfrost.org/biography.jsp
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/robert-frost/
News
https://poets.org/text/poetry-and-power-robert-frosts-inaugural-reading
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/robert-frost
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/solutions/2021/01/21/amanda-gormans-hill-we-climb-recalls-robert-frost-jfk-inaugural/6657401002/
https://www.newyorker.com/tag/robert-frost
https://www.biography.com/news/john-f-kennedy-inauguration-robert-frost-poem
Videos
"The Road Not Taken"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGB_K_xlHdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrBHd41YqTc
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWcq2-ZA5o
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj7Tm8TtTas
Robert Frost Recites 4 of his poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE64CTUGQpg