Amid the moving speeches and superstar performances at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s inauguration today, poet Amanda Gorman left a lasting impression after she recited a stirring and powerful poem about moving forth from a time of turmoil with hopes for change and unity.
Titled “The Hill We Climb,” Gorman’s piece embodies the inaugural theme of America United,” which echoes President Biden’s promise to coalesce a divided country. Such divisions deepened in the Trump years and came to a head earlier this month when insurrectionists supporting former president Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building in protest of the election results. Gorman, 22, was in the middle of writing her poem when the attack happened, she told The New York Times. She wrote the following lines after the siege.
She adds, “In this truth, in this faith, we trust for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. This is the era of just redemption.”
The Harvard graduate makes history as the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, but that’s not the only title she holds. She was named the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2014 and later became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in the United States. Here, tune in to Gorman’s full speech and read the full transcript of her poem below.
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