![]() In 2017, Amanda Gorman was appointed the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate by Urban Word – a program that supports Youth Poets Laureate in more than 60 cities, regions and states nationally. She has written for the New York Times newsletter The Edit and penned the manifesto for Nike's 2020 Black History Month campaign. She has received a Genius Grant from OZY Media, as well as recognition from Scholastic Inc., YoungArts, the Glamour magazine College Women of the Year Awards, and the Webby Awards. Amanda has performed multiple commissioned poems for CBS This Morning and she has spoken at events and venues across the country, including the Library of Congress and Lincoln Center. Now her words have won her invitations to the Obama White House and to perform for Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, and others. ![]() She has written for the New York Times and has three books forthcoming with Penguin Random House.īorn and raised in Los Angeles, she began writing at only a few years of age. ![]() history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. ![]() ![]() Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. ![]()
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