Amanda Gorman on Her Poems, Poetry Influences, and Inaugural Poem Message

Gorman is probably the most famous poet in America. She is the woman who, at 22, became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history when she issued that call for unity on the steps of the U.S. Capitol a mere two weeks after militant far-right factions stormed the building in an attempt to prevent the election from being certified. She would go on to become the first (and so far only) poet to deliver a poem during the Super Bowl - another performance that would help thrust her into the stratosphere of the public imagination.