She also is the first poet commissioned to write a poem to be read at the Super Bowl. Gorman was selected by President Biden to read her original poem “The Hill We Climb” for his Inauguration on January 20, 2021, making her the youngest poet to have served in this role. She previously served as the youth poet laureate of Los Angeles, and she is the founder and executive director of One Pen One Page, an organization providing free creative writing programs for underserved youth. In 2017, Gorman was named the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. She is the author of the The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country (Viking Books for Young Readers, March 2021), the poetry collection The Hill We Climb (Viking, September 2021) and The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015). She graduated from Harvard University in 2020. If only we’re brave enough to be it.Amanda Gorman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Our people diverse and beautiful will emerge, We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the Midwestern states,
Where our forefathers first realized revolution We will rise from the windswept Northeast We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the West, We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one Will be the inheritance of the next generationĮvery breath from my bronze-pounded chest, How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?
How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracyīut while democracy can be periodically delayed We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit, That everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree Not because we will never again know defeatīut because we will never again sow division That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: So we can reach out our arms to one another We close the divide because we know to put our future first To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of manĪnd so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us We are striving to forge our union with purpose We the successors of a country and a timeĭescended from slaves and raised by a single mother We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peaceĪnd the norms and notions of what just isĪnd yet the dawn is ours before we knew it Where can we find light in this never-ending shade? Read the full transcript of Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb”: She has now joined the ranks of august inaugural poets such as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou. A graduate of Harvard University, Gorman said she overcame a speech impediment in her youth and became the first U.S. history to mark the transition of presidential power.
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