Maya To Write Poem About Obama

Avid Hillary Clinton supporter Maya Angelou says she has been inspired to write a poem in honor of president-elect Barack Obama, who will be the first African American to hold the nation's highest office when he is sworn in on Jan. 20.

But Angelou doesn't expect to be commissioned to recite her piece on Inauguration Day, as she did for the incoming president 16 years ago.

"I'm sure Mr. Obama, president-elect, will have them bring his own poet," the 80-year-old writer told the Associated Press Friday from her home in Winston-Salem, where she holds a professorship at Wake Forest University. "I was somebody else's poet."

Here is some of Obama's poetry that he published in 1981.