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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 were...
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 must...
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 · CNN — 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,
Jan 20, 2021 · “The Hill We Climb” is the poem composed and recited by Amanda Gorman at the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden. It was written especially for the...
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.
In January 2021, the 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman achieved a record: she became the youngest person ever to recite a poem at a US President’s inauguration, when Gorman read her poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ at the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
‘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.
The poem celebrates the U.S. not as a "perfect union," but as a country that has the grit to struggle with its all-too-real problems. Progress, the poem argues, doesn't happen all at once: it's a slow and sometimes painful "climb" up the "hill" of justice, a climb that takes patience and humility.
