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Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

The New Yorker: Poetry

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How Do You Feel So Confident in the M Thank You?

I almost would say authoritative, and that's a compliment. I mean, i think it's able to say these large things about the wee in ways that people don't always do in poetry. It wasn't out of a feeling of trying to sound confident, though i'm glad that that's how it comes off. The poems are actually questioned, just without a question mark. And so when you've hit such a deep abis of doubt, i think, as an individual and as a people, you start to look for those types of stones or pillars that we know to be true.

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