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Updated: Jan. 27, 2021
If you’d asked me a week ago to name the world’s most famous Amanda, I’d have struggled to come up with anyone other than “Hugginkiss” (thanks, Bart Simpson). And if you’d asked me to pick out a brilliant young American poet, I’d have found it almost as hard as naming a Fox News commentator I admire.
In a sense, the youth poet laureate’s awe-inspiring performance on the steps of the Capitol was the true cultural launch of 2021 – and a welcome and necessary reminder that, even in the darkest of times, talent still emerges when you least expect, and most need, it.