Poet Amanda Gorman Goes From Inauguration Star to Internet Sensation
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPresident Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris ostensibly were the main attractions on Inauguration Day. But Amanda Gorman stole the show with her reading of uplifting poem “The Hill We Climb” and became an overnight media and internet star.The work by Gorman, 22, the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration, focused on themes of unity and hope amid the pandemic and the surreal political violence of the Jan.