Amanda Gorman recited his voice in January 2021, reading the poem for the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Four years later, she is helping children find her voice with her new photo book “Girls on Rise”.
With the example of Artist Lewis Way, Gorman’s book works to highlight “the importance of community and allies”, “he said while interviewing NBC News’s” meeting “.
“This means that it is to be a young person in this generation who is going, and is currently changing the world,” he said.
The 32 -page photo book offers an original poem about the strength of girls, especially when they work together, with the works of the voice.
The 26 -year -old Gorman himself became a literary stardum as a teenager: In 2015, he published a poetry book “One for whom food is not enough”. In 2017, she became the first winner of the National Youth Poet Award -winning award. He reads the “hill we climb”, calling for unity and development in the United States for the inauguration of a poem Biden.
“I finished it on the night of January 6, and so it is important for me to implement my own feelings and ideas as an American who is seeing violence against our democracy,” said Gorman.
“I didn’t know the way he had recovered and resonated. He said,” It was something historical and personal and meaningful and powerful, and I would not trade it for the world. “
After the inauguration, Gorman published another book and jointly hosted Met Gala later this year. “Now, she focuses on building a better world for the next generation with the children’s book” The importance of the community and the allies, “said Gorman.
In 2023, a Florida school was banned from the opening poem of Gorman when parents lodged a complaint against him. He said it was “like a slight gut cartoon” when he found out his work would be banned, but in recent years, he had the right to read and learn children in the context of banning thousands of books in schools and libraries in recent years. Are frightened.
“The books are being banned, mainly, including authors and color roles, authors and roles of the LGBTQ community, and therefore the full identity we are erased by the booklets of the books. Seeing. ” “And when a child cannot see himself represented in a story, he cannot dream of his life, to bring his hopes to reality.”
Gorman emphasized the importance of representation, adding that she feels a lot of pressure as a 22 -year -old poet in national light.
He said, “I felt a lot of weight, because I knew if I had failed or did not do anything good, it would become an excuse to exclude young people from high events.” Like you feel the desire to do good for yourself, but for those who follow it. “
Gorman, a worker himself, said that he was inspired by Maya Angelo and activists and workers. Even an opening poet For President Bill Clinton – and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1993, he said he could contest for the president when he was in 2036.
“I hope my mark is a literal and a change maker that speaks in a language that allows our country to come back in love, inheritance and contact,” he said.
