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Amanda Gorman becomes first person to perform a poem during the Super Bowl
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Derrick Oluoch | February 10th 2021 at 12:45:00 GMT +0300
Inaugral poet Amanda Gorman. She is the first person to ever perform a poem at the Super Bowl (Courtesy)
Amanda Gorman performed during the LV Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers held on February 7 to become the first person to ever perform an original poem during the game.
In her original piece titled Chorus of the Captains, Gorman, 22, saluted three honorees whose works have been phenomenal, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Sunday, activist and poet Amanda Gorman, 22, became the first National Youth Poet Laureate to recite an original poem at the Super Bowl, played between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Gorman s poem, Chorus of the Captains, celebrated three honorary captains Pittsburgh-based Marine veteran James Martin, who volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project and works with at-risk kids; Los Angeles educator Trimaine Davis; and Tampa ICU nurse manager Suzie Dorner.
During an interview with Trevor Noah on
The Daily Show, she shared the importance of being at the big game. These are the moments I strive for in my lifetime, which is to bring poetry into places that we least expect it, so we can fully kind of grapple with the ways in which it can heal us and kind of resurrect us, she said.