The 22-year-old poet who spoke with poise and eloquence at the inauguration of
Joe Biden and
Kamala Harris, reading her poem "The Hill We Climb". Ms. Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in United States
history, earned wide praise and admiration for her contribution to an event regarded, by several measures, as historically significant.
Amanda Gorman joins a small group of poets who have graced a presidential inauguration with their words, among them Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller
Williams, Elizabeth Alexander and Richard Blanco.
From "The Hill We Climb", she read:
"And yet the
dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow, we do it.
Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t
broken, but simply unfinished."