If You Want To Get Into Poetry, Here's Where To Start
You’re reading Here, Try This – our month-long plan encouraging you to try something new every day. Hands up who was completely blown away by the power of 22-year-old Amanda Gorman as she read her poem, The Hill We Climb, on the US Capitol last week. We’re used to hearing poetry during the big moments in life – from births to deaths to marriages – and they don’t get much bigger than a presidential inauguration, Judith Palmer, director of The Poetry Society, tells HuffPost UK. “Amanda wasn’t just reading a text. She was performing it. She was there at this huge moment in histo...
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