Amanda Gorman Youth Poet Laureate Poetry Reading at Girlboss Rally

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gorman fell in love with poetry after hearing her teacher read Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" to the class. She then turned to writing to cope with her speech impediment. Similar to how President Biden had a stutter growing up, Gorman had difficulty pronouncing certain sounds. At age 14, Gorman joined WriteGirl, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles that promotes creativity and self-expression to empower girls, attending their monthly creative writing workshops and working one-on-one with writing mentors. Gorman has already been a trailblazer not once but twice. When she was 16, she was named the first-ever Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate. The New York Times reports that Gorman—who was inspired by a speech that Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize laureate, gave in 2013—became a youth delegate for the United Nations. Soon after, in 2014, she was named the inaugural Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate.

The following year, she published her first poetry collection, "The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough." Then, in 2017, when she was 19 and a sophomore at Harvard University, she became the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate. Gorman recently graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and she has two books forthcoming with Penguin Random House: a children's book called Change Sings and an upcoming poetry collection. She is also the first person to announce her intention to run for president in 2036, the first election cycle in which she'll be old enough to do so. She told the L.A. Times that Vice President Harris reinvigorated her plans.

The 22-year-old writer and first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate took the country's breath away as she recited her poem "The Hill We Climb" and became an inspiration for the next generation.

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00:08 Amanda Gorman on stage at Girlboss Rally
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