Choosing Jill Biden for the Inauguration: The Youngest Poet in History

Of: Sophie Tanha

Published: January 20, 2021 at 6:52 p.m.
Updated: January 20, 2021 at 7:22 p.m.

Another woman wrote a story during Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration.

Amanda Gorman, 22, is the youngest to recite her poetry at the event.

A political poem against racism followed from the poet Jill Biden is said to have chosen.

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Amanda Gorman, 22, became the youngest poet to recite her poetry at the presidential inauguration.

Amanda Gorman just graduated from Harvard. Now follow in the footsteps of the literary giants.

Maya Angelou and Robert Frost are some of the names who previously read her poetry at an installation ceremony.

Several US outlets say that the doctor and education enthusiast, also First Lady Jill Biden, was the person who recommended Amanda Gorman as a poet of the installation.

In her poem, Amanda Gorman mentions the greatness of a slender black woman who was raised by a single mother who is now where she is.

He wants to show the wounds of the country

The poem Amanda Gorman wrote for the event, “The Hill We Climb,” is very current and passionate about politics. Without addressing the events directly, he comments on the assault on the Capitol that took place just a few weeks ago at the location where he is now.

“I didn’t try to write anything where those events were painted as a departure from the America that I know,” he told the LA Times before the installation.

“We are going to elevate this wounded world to a fabulous one … There is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it.” If only we were brave enough to be that. ”She read from the poem.

– America is messy. It is still in an early stage of what we can all become. And I have to show it in the poem. I can’t ignore or delete it. So, I wrote a poem that shows these scars and wounds. Hopefully it will help us cure them, he told the newspaper.

Published: January 20, 2021 at 6:52 p.m.