Amanda Gorman makes big impact as youngest inaugural poet in US history
One of the highlights of President Biden’s inauguration was the poem “The Hill We Climb,” written and read by Amanda Gorman who at age 22 joined the ranks of Maya Angelou and Robert Frost as an inaugural poet. Jenna Bush Hager, who interviewed Gorman in 2018, reports for TODAY.
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