Knowing Poetry with Timothy E. G. Bartel | Inaugural Poetry: The Obama Years @timothye.g.bartel9829 | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 18 minutes ago.
Barack Obama's 2009 and 2013 inaugurations featured the poets Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco, who began to take inaugural poetry in new directions. Clips of each poet's inaugural reading are below:

Elizabeth Alexander:
youtu.be/_vLBnFk-OFc

Richard Blanco:
youtu.be/AkSRy8SGTEE