UPI Almanac for Thursday, March 26, 2009.

UPI Almanac for Monday, Feb. 2, 2009.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Elizabeth Alexander, who recited the inaugural poem at President Barack Obama's inauguration, is a poet with deep roots in government.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Yale University Professor Elizabeth Alexander says creating a poem for the Washington inauguration of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will be a "challenge."

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, March 26, 2008.

UPI Almanac for Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008.

RIPTON , Vt., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Under-age partygoers reportedly fueled by alcohol and drugs trashed the Vermont farmhouse where U.S. poet Robert Frost spent his later years.

RIPTON, Vt., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Ripton, Vt., said the historic home of poet Robert Frost was badly damaged by vandals who destroyed numerous antiques.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Good fences, as Robert Frost famously wrote, make good neighbors. In fact the poet was being ironic. Massive border defenses are a testament to tensions between states, but they are also a way to manage them short of war. And border fences have become surprisingly good business for U.S. and international defense contractors in recent years.