This month is Women’s History Month, so through the end of March, I will share a daily female poet from history along with 2 poems they have written.
While this is a fun way to celebrate women, I am also using it as an opportunity to educate myself more on the history and people of poetry. Even if poetry is a foreign language to you, this is also meant to be a way to learn history behind a form of art. So that’s 2 things you can get out of it – history and art!
For day nine, I chose Amanda Gorman, who is most recently known for being the Inaugural Poet at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration. She has also written a book with more soon to be published.
The Poetry Foundation has an article on the biography of Gorman. You can read it in full here.
The first poem I chose for Gorman is the poem she read for the inauguration “'The Hill We Climb" You can read the poem here.
For lack of Gorman's poems being available online, instead of a second poem, here is an article about her upcoming books. You can read the article here.
Photo from Poetry Foundation.
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