The powerful poem Amanda Gorman recited at Joe Biden’s inauguration | ABC News

September 14, 2021January 20, 2021 by News Desk

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Amanda Gorman has become the youngest poet in US history to mark the transition of presidential power in a striking performance at the swearing-in of the new administration.
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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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Joe Biden is an American politician serving as the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

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