AMANDA GORMAN, whose recitation of “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 inauguration made her America’s most famous poet, has never met a mountain she couldn’t scale.
Sep 06, 2022
3 minutes
Story by KAITLYN GREENIDGE
Amanda Gorman already knows you want her to save the world. “Young people are expected to rescue everyone, even when we’re struggling to rescue ourselves,” she tells me in the same clear, strident voice she used to deliver her poem “The Hill We Climb,” which she performed at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
Gorman is probably the most famous poet in America. She is the woman who, at 22, became the youngest inaugural poet in US history when she delivered that call for unity on the steps of the US Capitol a mere two weeks after militant
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