How to Celebrate Amanda Gorman Without Being Weird About It
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2 min readJan 21, 2021
In a presidential inauguration ceremony that solidified the end of a bitter four years, and that saw the swearing in of America’s first Black — and female and South Asian and non-White, period—vice president, it was the Black 22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman who stole the show.
Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in history, offered an invocation to optimism that…
