ALA 2021 Virtual Midwinter Meeting Gets Underway First Lady Jill Biden, Author Ibram X. Kendi, and Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of the United States who stole the show at President Biden's inauguration this week, are among those scheduled to speak at the 2021 American Library Association virtual Midwinter Meeting By Andrew Albanese | Jan 22, 2021 Gorman is set to deliver a reading from her forthcoming lyrical picture book Change Singson Monday, January 25, 2021, at 11:10 a.m. CT—followed immediately by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden. Biden's talk is set for Monday, Jan. 25, 11:15–noon CT, in conversation with ALA president Julius C. Jefferson, Jr.