The New American Dream of Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’
How the poet connects America’s past to its future.
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4 min readJan 26, 2021
Plenty of history was made on January 20, 2021. Plenty of firsts. Plenty of barriers broken. And while it’s easy to get swept up in the currents of politics that dominate our attention, there was another current flowing strong that day. National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda…
