Poetry Club Talks…Amanda Gorman

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>>A Special Presidential Inauguration Edition<<

Topic: Amanda Gorman
Host: Poetry Club
Poem: “The Hill We Climb”
Recorded: January 23, 2021

Ron asks, “Has a single poem ever had such an impact?” Poetry Club takes on this question and more as we share our thoughts & feelings of the Inauguration week, and examine “The Hill We Climb” –What a week it was!

Amanda Gorman was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Harvard University in 2020.

She is the author of the poetry collection The Hill We Climb (Viking, September 2021) and The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015). In 2017 Gorman was named the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States. 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. (poets dot org)

Gorman was selected by President Biden to read an original poem for his Inauguration on January 20, 2021, making her the youngest poet to have served in this role.

https://www.theamandagorman.com/

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