When 22-year-old Amanda Gorman took the podium at President Joe Biden’s inauguration she was just another poet. When she left it, she was a fresh force in American culture.
Gorman’s recitation of her poem “The Hill We Climb” was graceful, powerful and inspiring in a moment when the country needed it most.
But the road to that stage, and to being named the nation’s first Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, hasn’t been smooth for Gorman.
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