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American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
RIDGEFIELD, CT — When the nation's first-ever youth poet laureate read her work,"The Hill We Climb," at the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, poetry had a moment. Amanda Gorman was only the sixth poet in U.S. history to read their verse at a presidential inauguration, and at age 22, the youngest by far. By the end of the day, her two books of poems had rocketed to the top of Amazon's Bestsellers List