Who Are the Inaugural Poets for United States Presidents?
Here is a list of the inaugural poets for United States Presidential Inauguration Days from Robert Frost to Amanda Gorman. This post also touches on who an inaugural poet is and which presidents have had them at their inaugurations.
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Jan 20, 2021
Today, there was once again an inaugural poet. After President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in, Amanda Gorman (the nation s first ever National Youth Poet Laureate) read her poem The Hill We Climb. She became the fifth inaugural poet of my lifetime, but only the sixth ever.
NEW YORK Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew.” In language referencing Biblical scripture and at times echoing the oratory of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the 22-year-old Gorman read with urgency and […]
On a stage with political icons and entertainment heavyweights, 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman stole the show. Gorman was selected to.
Under a decade ago, Amanda Gorman was still a teenage student in Los Angeles, spending her days devouring the works of Toni Morrison and furiously scribbling in her journals with the dream of one day becoming a writer. After submitting her poems to local competitions, she was named the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2014, becoming the first National Youth Poet Laureate three years later. And today, at 22-years-old, Gorman steps up to her biggest career milestone yet: delivering an original poem, titled “The Hill We Climb”. to celebrate the inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States.