Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 20 ga Janairu, 2009, a rantsar da shugaban kasa na Barack Obama
, Alexander ya karanta waƙar "Waƙar yabo ga Ranar", wanda ta tsara don wannan lokacin. Ta zama mawaki na huɗu ne kawai da za a karanta a bikin rantsar da shugaban Amurka, bayan Robert Frost a 1961, Maya Angelou a 1993 da Miller Williams a 1997.