Amanda Gorman Showed Why Schools Should Teach Poetry
A President Joe Biden finally took his oath of office during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. Having overcome historic obstacles, he was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the investiture of the nation’s poetry-lover-in-chief. The performance of “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman, the US youth poet laureate, brought politicians and dignitaries to their feet and set YouTube ablaze. Nobody was more enthusiastic than teachers, who took to Twitter to celebrate the 22-year-old poet and her work as an inspiration for their students and quickly incorporated the poem ...
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