Amanda Gorman Showed Why Schools Should Teach Poetry
Verse has mostly been erased from the curriculum. After Inauguration Day, it should be easy to see why that’s a mistake.
Were curriculum writers listening?
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President Joe Biden finally took his oath of office during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. Having overcome historic obstacles, he was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the investiture of the nation’s poetry-lover-in-chief.
The performance of “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman, the U.S. youth poet laureate, brought politicians and dignitaries to their feet and set YouTube ablaze.