What did Amanda Gorman teach us?

Gorman had been halfway through the process of writing her poem, after finding she was chosen to write it in late December of 2020, when thousands of angry Trump supporters stormed the White House, vandalizing and looting a building so completely representative of our nation’s history. Since then, much has made of the storming of our nation’s capital, most of it negative, righteously so, but Gorman chose to derive a different message from it.

In an interview with ITV News, Gorman said this was when she knew she wanted to write a poem so incredibly imbued with hope as if it were a syrup dripping from the words she wrote down.

She thought us a lesson about how to story tell in her poems.

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