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Amanda Gorman. Wordsmith. Change-maker. Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. She has written for the New York Times and has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House.
Amanda Gorman was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the author of the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (2015). She attended New Roads in Santa Monica and Harvard University, where she graduated cum laude with a degree in sociology. Her art and activism focus on issues of…
Jan 20, 2021 · Amanda Gorman recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration. Erin Schaff/The New York Times. By Alexandra Alter. Jan. 20, 2021. When Amanda Gorman was writing her...
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.
Jan 19, 2021 · Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse. The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history read “The Hill We Climb,” which she finished after the riot at the Capitol. “I’m not going to in ...
Dec 6, 2021 · By Amanda Gorman. December 6, 2021. Illustration by Grace J. Kim. What we call occasional poetry—verse written for or about an event, often ceremonial—reminds us that all poems have occasions,...
Amanda Gorman - The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
