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Jan 20, 2021 · Amanda Gorman became the youngest person to deliver a poem at a U.S. presidential inauguration, with the 22-year-old reciting her poem “The Hill We Climb” after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris...
Jan 20, 2021 · Here is the text of Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb,” in full. When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry. A sea we...
Jan 21, 2021 · Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, read the following poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20: When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we...
Jan 20, 2021 · On Wednesday, Amanda Gorman ’20 stepped up to the podium to deliver the reading during the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden. Her piece, titled “The Hill We Climb,” called for unity and justice, through both reckoning with the nation’s past and looking toward its future.
"The Hill We Climb" is a spoken word poem written by American poet Amanda Gorman and recited by her at the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021. The poem was written in the weeks following the 2020 United States presidential election , with significant passages written on the night of January 6, 2021, in response ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Gorman finished the poem, titled "The Hill We Climb," the night after pro-Trump rioters sieged the Capitol building earlier this month.
Poet and activist Amanda Gorman recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the historic inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Her words call for hope, unity and resilience in a time of division. "While democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated," she says.
Jan 22, 2021 · If you didn’t know who Amanda Gorman was before Wednesday, you do now. Gorman, 22, became the 6th and youngest poet to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, “ The Hill We Climb ,” captured viewers across the country, and made her an overnight literary sensation.
Jan 21, 2021 · Amanda Gorman recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the swearing-in ceremony of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Wednesday. The 22-year-old used her words to embolden Americans to confront grief, to dare to hope and to act with mercy and love.
Jan 21, 2021 · After Biden was sworn in as the nation’s 46th president, Gorman read “The Hill We Climb,” building on a tradition of poets -- including Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander and...
