Obama's poet is Cuban American

I've never been one for poetry but I was driving along and heard the Inauguration Poem over the radio and I thought it was really good. This Robert Blanco guy is another story of how you can be anything in this country if you work hard and make it yours.
The most powerful quality of our country is that each day is full of a million possibilities: We are a country of fierce individualism, which invites me to shape my life as I see fit. As I reflect on this, I see how the American story is in many ways my story -- a country still trying to negotiate its own identity, caught between the paradise of its founding ideals and the realities of its history, trying to figure it out, trying to "become" even today -- the word "hope" as fresh on our tongues as it ever was.