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Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Did You Have to Keep It Secret?

The entirety of colis what we carry was almost like being possessed. I spent every single day from morning to night, writing and working on the poem. It was almost like a fever. And i wish i could say that that is a unique experience to this poem, but i can say that was what it was like writing.

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