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It’s official — Joe Biden is the president of the United States and Kamala Harris is the first woman, first Black woman, and first woman of South Asian descent to serve as vice president! To say that Jan. 20, 2021, is a historic day is a huge understatement, but Biden and Harris aren’t the only ones celebrating a major milestone. Poet Amanda Gorman had the honor of reciting a piece titled “The Hill We Climb” during the Inauguration Day ceremony, making her the youngest inaugural poet at age 22.
Ahead of the big day, Gorman shared an excerpt of the poem with POPSUGAR in honor of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s National Day of Racial Healing, which took place on Jan. 19. “I basically wrote a little bit every day, a few lines here and there, and then in mid-January, I just churned out the rest in one day,” Gorman said of her writing process. “The ironic thing is I feel like the poem in itself was like a hill I had to climb as a writer!”
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