![]() “It kind of became my mini experiment,” she said. In 2018, Gorman told the Harvard Crimson that as a child, strangers who heard her impediment used to assume that she was a British or Nigerian immigrant. An audio processing disorder left her with a speech impediment at a young age, and she underwent extensive therapy to correct it, as Biden did with his own stutter. Gorman, who was chosen to write a poem for the inauguration after Jill Biden saw a video of her performing at the Library of Congress, has something in common with President Joe Biden. “There is space for grief and horror and hope and unity, and I also hope that there is a breath for joy in the poem, because I do think we have a lot to celebrate at this inauguration.” “We have to confront these realities if we’re going to move forward, so that’s also an important touchstone of the poem,” Gorman told the New York Times. Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.īut while democracy can be periodically delayed,įor while we have our eyes on the future, We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, The result, which nods to the Broadway musical Hamilton, reads, in part, as follows: Gorman says she stayed up late into the night after the riots, composing a poem that would address the violence of the day while still offering hope for the future. Then came the Capitol riots of January 6. In an interview with the New York Times, Gorman, who graduated from Harvard last year with a degree in sociology, said she struggled to compose “The Hill We Climb” in the weeks leading up to the inauguration. Within minutes, her Twitter account jumped from 48,000 followers to 255,000 and counting. Amanda Gorman, who is 22 years old and was named the first youth poet laureate of the United States in 2017, delivered her poem “The Hill We Climb” to the waiting crowd. After Joe Biden finished delivering his inaugural address, the youngest-ever inauguration poet in US history took the stage and stole the show.
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