News at Eleven: I was very inspired by the Democratic National Convention

years ago, where Obama first made a really big splash with the "one America" speech. That has always stayed in my consciousness and that's why there were echoes of that. But I was thinking in the back of my head, People are going to start thinking there was some kind of collaboration on this!

from New York: Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco: 'I Did Not Lip-Synch!'
then The Vancouver Sun: Why is it we never see any public poetry?
then The Weekly Standard: Blanco Verse

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