Amanda Gorman
(GNB Desk): A 22-year-old Amanda Gorman gave a stunning performance in the presidential inaugural ceremony today. Gorman, who became the youngest known inaugural poet when she read “The Hill We Climb” on Wednesday.
Gorman has previously performed five original poems.
The first was a Thanksgiving poem called “The Republic Gives Thanks,” which she performed at Harvard University in 2018 when she was a student there. She collaborated with the Boston Pops for the Independence Day work “Believer’s Hymn for the Republic” and with musician Jon Batiste for a special Empire State Building performance of “The Republic Rising.”
In 2020, she paid tribute to Americans’ resilience during the coronavirus pandemic with her composition “The Miracle of Morning,” and she spoke out on social justice and racial equality with her poem “Fury and Faith.”
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