Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, steals the show at Joe Biden’s inauguration

The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “Poet Amanda Gorman, 22, steals the show at Joe Biden’s inauguration” – below is their description.

A 22-year-old poet who overcame a speech impediment became one of the highlights of the inauguration ceremony as she celebrated being a “skinny black girl” who could now “dream of becoming president”.

Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in US history, called for Americans to “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” as she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” to the dignitaries gathered at the Capitol.

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Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.

In 2021, Gorman read “The Hill We Climb” at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden.

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