Five months after she became the breakout star of Joe Biden’s inauguration, 23-year-old poet Amanda Gorman was honored on Saturday by the group that she credits with getting her career starte…
“The power and prowess of WriteGirl is undeniable, and thanks to you all working together in harmony it really changed my life,” she said in her video speech. “Many times the only journals I had growing up were the journals that I’d been given for free at WriteGirl workshops, and I cherished them as the treasures they are and I still keep them to this day,” closing out with a call to “keep going and never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen.
Since the inauguration, where she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” after becoming the country’s first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017 and the first Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate in 2014, Gorman has gone on to be repped by WME and signed with
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