Amanda Gorman is set to read a poem she has purposefully written for Biden’s inauguration, The Hill we climbed. Speaking to NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Gorman said she finished writing the poem on 6th January 2021, the very day the insurrection of the Capitol happened.
Gorman has said that she is following in the footsteps of Maya Angelou and Robert Frost in reading a poem at the presidential inauguration. She is the youngest ever to have graced a presidential inauguration with a poetry performance in America.
Amanda Gorman was named the first Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2014 and the country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate three years later.
Gorman has been public about a speech impediment that she has managed to surmount in the form of stuttering. And she has made effort to overcome such impediments while on stage at Biden’s inauguration.
