People pass by a mural of poet Amanda Gorman, painted by San Francisco muralist Nicole Hayden, center, on Page Street on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Gabrielle Lurie/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
In 2017, poet Sarah Holbrook was excited to learn that two of her poems were chosen to appear on the 7th and 8th grade Texas state standardized test. On a lark, Holbrook tried answering the multiple-choice questions about her own poems. She got every question wrong. Asked about it afterwards, she wondered how kids could possibly be expected to answer questions about her poems that even