# Poet Amanda Gorman Speaks at the Biden-Harris Inauguration 2021 - YouTube

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6IKviDWFs>

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## What Jamie wrote

[Amanda Gorman](https://www.theamandagorman.com)'s reading of her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the Inauguration this week was incredibly powerful and a moment I will remember for a long time. I've come to appreciate the power that can be in poetry, and this is an incredible example of that. [Anderson Cooper's interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHhut5nhI8g) with Gorman has interesting back story and history behind it, and the [NY Times writeup](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/books/amanda-gorman-inauguration-hill-we-climb.html) is a good read as well. [Brad Feld posted the text](https://feld.com/archives/2021/01/the-hill-we-climb-by-amanda-gorman.html) of the poem in his post if you want to read it.

Gorman also has a TED Talk from 2018 (when she must have been just 20 years old?) titled [Using your voice is a political choice](https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_gorman_using_your_voice_is_a_political_choice) that is powerful as well. Check out her [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Gorman) for more information.

## Facts

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- Video: "Poet Amanda Gorman Speaks at the Biden-Harris Inauguration 2021", by Biden Inaugural Committee, YouTube (id _U6IKviDWFs)

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## Elsewhere

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