This year, Inauguration Day falls on Monday, Jan. 20. In honor of the day, you’ll find a collection of stirring Inauguration Day quotes spoken by U.S. presidents or poets during inaugurations dating ...

When Amanda Gorman read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” at former President Joe Biden’s inauguration, she became the youngest ...

Adrian Matejka, editor of Poetry Magazine, said inauguration poetry is unique both in terms of form and content. An inaugural poem is an “occasion poem” — written specifically to commemorate a day or ...

Outside the sky was bright blue with sunshine and the air a brisk 20 degrees. Inside the South Dakota Capitol, hundreds of ...

“The business of America is business (not poetry).” Nevertheless, centuries later, why we don’t constitutionally prohibit literature from littering the National Mall on Inauguration Day only ...

With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.

Johnson was sworn in by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah T. Hughes on Air Force One, just hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The plane ...

who did it in 1993 when celebrating his first Inaugural Day. Clinton also revived the inclusion of an Inauguration Poem, inviting Maya Angelou to present her work "On the Pulse of Morning." ...