President-Elect Barack Obama has chosen poet Elizabeth Alexander to read at his inaguration.  Some of us have been waiting on pins and needles to see who he would pick.

Full article here, with lots of interesting quotes by other poets on the subject.  I think Rita Dove said it best: “So it’s an admirable task (that) no one would refuse if they were asked, but you would kind of go, ‘Oh, my God.”