Poetry Matters

Poetry matters.

And THIS. Listen to poet Amanda Gorman’s performance of her poem, The Hill We Climb, at the 2021 US Presidential Inauguration.

I got the chills listening to it. She nailed it.

On writing the poem, Gorman said this:

“America is messy. It’s still in its early development of all that we can become. And I have to recognise that in the poem. I can’t ignore that or erase it. And so, I crafted an inaugural poem that recognises these scars and these wounds. Hopefully, it will move us toward healing them.”