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In 1982, Derek Walcott admitted that he sexually harassed a student. Will President-Elect Barack Obama pick an admitted predator to serve as his Inaugural Poet?

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to serve as inaugural poet at his ceremony on becoming the 44th president of the United States of America.

Barrack Obama Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander was on the faculty at this year's Napa Valley Writers' Conference, and read her poems at the Napa Valley Opera House.

On the steps of the Capitol, Barack Hussein Obama laid his hand on Abraham Lincoln's bible and was sworn in as the first African-American President of the United States.

On January 20, 2009, at the history-making inauguration of Barack Obama, Yale English professor, Elizabeth Alexander, delivered her work, "Praise Song for the Day.