It’s not easy stealing the spotlight when you’re sharing the stage with the likes of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama (to say.
Not Broken But Simply Unfinished : Poet Amanda Gorman Calls For A Better America
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Poet Amanda Gorman speaks at the inauguration of U.S. President Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
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When Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet from Los Angeles, took to the stage on Wednesday, it was immediately clear why the new president had chosen her as his inaugural poet.
Gorman echoed, in dynamic and propulsive verse, the same themes that Biden has returned to again and again and that he wove throughout his inaugural address: unity, healing, grief and hope, the painful history of American experience and the redemptive power of American ideals.
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Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman made a big impression as she summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew."