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Our Whole Lives, We Are Protest: Celebrating the Winners of the Young Poets Network Challenge – The Poetry Society
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Hands up who was completely blown away by the power of 22-year-old Amanda Gorman as she read her poem, The Hill We Climb, on the US Capitol last week.
We’re used to hearing poetry during the big moments in life – from births to deaths to marriages – and they don’t get much bigger than a presidential inauguration, Judith Palmer, director of The Poetry Society, tells HuffPost UK.
“Amanda wasn’t just reading a text. She was performing it. She was there at this huge moment in history, saying: here’s something I’ve written,” says Palmer. “She wanted to communicate – a message of hope and a recognition of where we are right now, where we have been and where we might go in the future.”