Prior to Biden's invitation to Gorman, only three presidents had poetry read at their inaugural ceremonies, according to the Academy of American Poets: President John F. Kennedy in 1961 ...

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National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman speaks on the third day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United ...

Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...

She was the country's first youth poet laureate in 2017. Her inauguration poem, The Hill We Climb, referenced the Capitol riots earlier this month, but also underlined the theme of unity set out ...

Los Angeles-born writer, Amanda Gorman, has become the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration. Miss Gorman says her poem The Hill We Climb is "about a new chapter in the United ...