We’re more conditioned To contagion than combat. But a virus, just like a war, separates us From our fellow people. Yet if we are willing, the cut Ca… - Amanda Gorman

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We’re more conditioned To contagion than combat. But a virus, just like a war, separates us From our fellow people. Yet if we are willing, the cut Can be an aperture, the hole Through which we reach for the whole Of one another.

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About Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman (born 7 March 1998) is an American poet and social activist. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015, and became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. She studied sociology at Harvard College, and graduated cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received worldwide attention with her recitation of her poem "The Hill We Climb" written for the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

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Alternative Names: Amanda S. C. Gorman
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