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Amanda Gorman, Inaugural Poet, Plans To Run For President
Harper's Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen President-elect Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, Amanda...
L.A. poet Amanda Gorman performs at Karen Bass' inauguration
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAmanda Gorman performs an original poem during Karen Bass' mayoral inauguration Sunday at Microsoft...
Amanda Gorman's poem for Biden's inauguration barred for younger children by Florida school
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA poem written for President Joe Biden's inauguration has been placed on a restricted list at a...
Greenville's First Youth Poet Laureate, Anna Castro Spratt, uses her writing for advocacy
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIf Riverside High School sophomore Anna Castro Spratt could trade places with one writer for the...
Meet Nandi Comer, Michigan's first poet laureate since the 1950s
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMichigan is about to meet Nandi Comer, the state's first poet laureate in more than 60 years. But...
Indianapolis native, National Youth Poet Laureate finalist builds bridges through poetry
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Alyssa Gaines was in third grade, her teacher assigned the class to write a poem about a color....
'We could not have asked for anyone better': Iowa City student reflects on year as Poet Ambassador
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOne year ago, Shreya Khullar was the newly inaugurated Iowa Student Poet Ambassador. Now, she’s a...
20 Black poets to know this National Black Poetry Day
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEvery year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more...
Amanda Gorman posts series of powerful poems in response to Texas school shooting
The Today Show via AOL· 2 years agoPoet and activist Amanda Gorman wrote a searing series of tweets in the wake of Tuesday’s mass...
A Miami-Dade school flagged her poem. The county’s mayor invited her to read it
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMiami-Dade County’s mayor on Wednesday invited poet Amanda Gorman to read her work in the Miami area...