Amanda Gorman, the nation's first youth poet laureate, recounted her fears ahead of President Joe Biden's inauguration in an op-ed published exactly one year later in The New York Times.
Amanda Gorman, the nation's first youth poet laureate, recounted her fears ahead of President Joe Biden's inauguration in an op-ed published exactly one year later in The New York Times on Thursday.She cited the fear of failing her community and her poetry, as well as the coronavirus pandemic before vaccines became widely available to her age group.
Gorman wrote,"Yet while the inauguration might have seemed like a ray of light, this past year for many has felt like a return to the same old gloom. Our nation is still haunted by disease, inequality and environmental crises. But though our fears may be the same, we are not." The historic events of Biden's inauguration in January 2021 navigated heightened security measures in DC and Covid-19 precautions, including limitations on the number of guests in attendance.
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