Amanda Gorman is opening up about what pushed her to perform her moving poem at the inauguration of President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C.
in January. At her virtual book launch party, celebrating the publication of The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Nation, the National Youth Poet Laureate got a surprise from Oprah Winfrey, whom Gorman says had something to do with it. “I texted Oprah asking, ‘Are you going to be there?
I’m really deliberating because I’m really scared,'” Gorman recalled in the latest from Oprah Daily. Winfrey’s encouragement helped the young poet say yes. “You said, ‘Mask up, show up, and go.’ To have you cheer me on and say that and believe that I could do it meant everything,” she told Winfrey during the
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