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Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Writing the Hill We Climb

"In writing this book was so frightening. Every single day i was faced with so much doubt," she says. "I tried not to ignore all of those kind of shadows and demons dancing around me, but actually to play with them."

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