Amanda Gorman!

[cilla4progress]

National Youth Poet Laureate.

I hope someone will put her wonderful poem to music!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/books/amanda-gorman-inauguration-hill-we-climb.html

Did the orange asshole fading in the mist even have a poet at his inauguration? Who would want that stain??? I can't imagine.

[dhill926]

1. wow! is all I got....

[zipplewrath]

3. It was incredible

That woman has a future.

[Hortensis]

2. :) We love her! nt

[MineralMan]

4. She was great!

[walkingman]

5. An amazing young lady. I hope to hear more from her going forward.

[YDogg]

6. Spellbinding.

Simply amazing.

[Wicked Blue]

7. "There's light, if only we're brave enough to see it.

"There's light, if only we're brave enough to be it."

Amanda Gorman, Jan. 20, 2021

[brer cat]

8. She was awesome.

I hope we hear much more from her as time goes on.

[Reader Rabbit]

9. If she's this gifted now...

...just imagine the incredible art and genius she'll be creating in years to come!!!

[beastie boy]

10. I can't get over it. In five minutes, one fearless articulate young black woman

totally humiliated and defeated the mob of white goons who stormed and ransacked the Capitol only fourteen days earlier. That's power! Trump's stormtroopers have a lot to learn about it.