Meet Poet Amanda Gorman From the 2021 Inauguration
Get to Know Amanda Gorman, the Young Poet Who Stunned at the 2021 Inauguration
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At age 22, Gorman is the youngest poet to ever speak at an inauguration. She's in extraordinary company, though, with other inaugural poets who are some of the most famous names in literary history. Robert Frost read at the John F. Kennedy inauguration in 1961, while Maya Angelou read at Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration. Biden is only the fourth president who has had a poetry reading at his inauguration (the others are Kennedy, Clinton, and Obama).