BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
January 21, 2021
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Amanda Gorman delivers a poem after Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (The New York Times)
Our new president is a man for prose. In his inaugural address Wednesday, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, Joe Biden defended the value of truth, facts, science. He spoke forcefully of the seemingly unachievable need for a sense of shared purpose, in the face of a pandemic and so many other grim challenges.
Then, the nation and the world heard something else. We heard something else. We heard something foreign and elusive for too long in American public life: a touch of the poet.
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