switching-to-glide:nprbooks:Image: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPoet Amanda Gorman arrives for today’s In
switching-to-glide:nprbooks:Image: Win McNamee/Getty ImagesPoet Amanda Gorman arrives for today’s Inauguration Day ceremonies – at 22, she’s the youngest poet in recent memory to recite at an inauguration. “I think there is a real history of orators who have had to struggle, a type of imposed voicelessness, you know, having that stage at inauguration,” Gorman tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep. “So it’s really special for me.“ Check that conversation out here.– Petra She was incredible. “The Hill We Climb” reads, in part: We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.And this effort very nearly succeeded.But while democracy can be periodically delayed,It can never be permanently defeated.In this truth, in this faith, we trust. For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. -- source link
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