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Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The New Book Starts With Ship Manifest and the Hill We Climb

The poem that you grace the inaugural stage with ends the book, uh, tell us about that journey. Two were written after the hill we climb. And so they weren't just written in a specific pandemic cultural moment, but it was written in a Specific Moment of my own life.

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