There hasn't been much to inspire us about the constant doom and gloom of the past four years, but after witnessing 22-year-old National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's words during today's history-making inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, we're suddenly reinvigorated.
The youngest poet to speak at a presidential inauguration in U.S. history, the Harvard alum is one of only a handful of poets who have performed at the prestigious ceremony where the President and Vice President get sworn into office, the likes of which include literary giants like Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. "In my poem, I’m not going to in any way gloss over what we’ve seen over the past few weeks and, dare I say, the past few