It’s a landmark literary moment, to be sure - and one infused with a contemporary freshness and colour the world so needs today. Her performance is being hailed by trailblazing Black women, including Michelle Obama, Stacey Abrams and Oprah Winfrey, who invokes the memory of the great American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou in praising Gorman, signalling the magnitude of the legacy and torch the young poet is taking up. The instant 1 New York Times bestseller and 1 USA Today bestseller Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem The Hill We Climb, read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition. The full transcript of Gorman’s poem can be read here, and it’s smashing.

Instead Gorman tackled the ugliness of racism head on, in a modern lyrical masterpiece that fuses free verse with spoken word, winding the listener through ancient and recent horrors to conclude on a hopeful call to action: This piece was performed at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, the 46th President. Gorman, 22, performed an original poem titled 'The. Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by 1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. (Patrick Semansky/AP) This article is more than 2. In ‘The Hill We Climb,’ the poet engages with themes of the future and past, as well as hope. Amanda Gorman, the nations first national youth poet laureate, made history again Wednesday as the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. Following the historic swearing in of Kamala Harris as the first woman and woman of colour to the role of Vice President of the United States, Gorman’s poem, entitled ‘The Hill We Climb’, did not gloss over the glaring racial tensions making Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration so crucial. American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S.

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