If celebrities are boycotting the event, will the president-elect risk the same rejection by trying to secure an inaugural poet? MacKenzie’s poem — written to celebrate Trump’s Scottish roots, and including the line, “With purpose and strength he came down from his tower/ To snatch from a tyrant his ill-gotten power” ― is not a confirmed inaugural reading. Earlier today, the Society of Classical Poets, the small literary organization that initially published the poem, posted on Facebook that Trump’s team “should” have it read at the inauguration. The post points out that Trump would be the first Republican president to have an inaugural poet. But for now, MacKenzie’s “Pibroch of the Domhnall” remains nothing more than a puzzling ode.

Source: Huffington Post January 17, 2017 22:07 UTC