'They make poetry real': Northampton launches 1st-ever youth poet laureate program, seeks student from city entering 7th to 12th grade
‘They make poetry real’: Northampton launches 1st-ever youth poet laureate program, seeks student from city entering 7th to 12th grade Updated 1:43 PM; In 2017, Amanda Gorman, then 19 years old, became the country’s first national youth poet laureate. Four years later, at Democratic President Joe Biden’s inauguration, she gave a rousing oration of her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” speaking eloquently on the complexities of democracy in the United States, stealing the spotlight during the hours-long ceremony and becoming a national sensation in the wake of her reading. The recent Har...