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Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate
She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving. They can convey images that magnify speech or even add new ideas that are not found in the spoken word
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Every once in a long while, we see gesture raised to a high art. Amanda Gorman, our first National Youth Poet Laureate, presented her poem
The Hill We Climb at the Biden-Harris inauguration on January 20 and, on February 7, was the very first poet to speak at the Super Bowl. Her words were inspirational. But so were her gestures.
Gorman is an original who moves her hands in ways that bring her thoughts to life. She choreographed her poem in a way that allowed us to know her, see her and feel her unique experience as a Black woman. Her gestures were designed to underscore her words, which they did beautifully. She pointed her two thumbs toward her shoulders as she said, “In a time where a skinny Black girl.” She then went on to sa
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