Obama Inauguration -- at the juncture of poetry and politics -- from the New York Times --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/books/25poet.html?hp

Poet commissioned to write and read poem at Inauguration is a fine poet -- you can see this from her "sample poems."

I am writing, and have written, (prose) for hire, and have so far been "commissioned"(verbally) to write two wedding poems, that the bridal couples liked a lot, and a play.
Subject was not specified. The commissioning theater director liked my poetry.

For the play commission, I was taken to an upscale restaurant in Philadelphia located in a bank vault. Was a lot of fun.

Kyi May Kaung.