Jan
20
First, here is the poem itself.
LA Times’s David Ulin calls the poem “less than praiseworthy”.
The London Times’s Erica Wagner writes “Praise Song for the Day was unmemorable. How do I know that for sure? Why, because I can’t remember it. Two minutes after it was spoken I couldn’t remember it.”
Poets in Asheville North Carolina enjoyed the poem, it seems.
The New Republic’s Adam Kirsch calls Alexander’s poem “bureaucratic”.
Paul Constant “thought her delivery was pretty bad, and that made it seem worse than it was.”
Interested in your thoughts!