It wasn’t until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.
AMANDA GORMANPoetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.
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See the line where the sky meets the sea.
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Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.
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I did a lot of sitting back and thinking about what I wanted for myself and what I wanted for my country: more unity, more support for the arts and more opportunities for young writers from marginalized groups.
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I was writing since I can remember – I just didn’t know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a career.
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I close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.
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My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.
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We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
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What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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If a woman doesn’t give herself permission, who will?
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I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.
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I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.
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