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Dec 6, 2021 · From “Call Us What We Carry” Out of the wreckage of the past and present, a poet forges a hopeful vision of a shared future. By Amanda Gorman. December 6, 2021. Illustration by...
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.
An original poem written for the inaugural reading of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Library of Congress. There’s a poem in this place— in the footfalls in the halls in the quiet beat of the seats. It is here, at the curtain of day, where America writes a lyric you must whisper to say.
'The Hill We Climb' is widely considered Amanda Gorman's best poem. It is certainly her best-known. The poem was read aloud to millions of viewers at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in 2020. This was, for most, the first time they'd seen Amanda Gorman or heard her poetry, and she made a huge impression.
‘The Hill We Climb’ by Amanda Gorman was written for President Joe Biden’s inauguration and speaks about the future of America. From the beginning to the end of the poem, Gorman uses images of light and darkness, hope and fear, to describe the two opposing sides of America, those who want to divide and those who want to unify.
Dec 7, 2021 · “The Hill We Climb” is the final poem in “Call Us What We Carry,” a sprawling collection with references ranging from “Ghostbusters” to Shakespeare to Carly Simon to Plato and influences that...
Dec 6, 2021 · In the poem "Call Us," she writes, "At times over half of our bodies / Are not our own," because what we carry is "A country, A continent, A planet." Just as more than half our bodies are water,...
