Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman ‘preserves the memory of a pandemic’ in new collection

The writer who shot to fame when Joe Biden was sworn in as president has published her response to Covid-19

• Scroll down to read Fugue, a poem from Gorman’s new collection

Amanda Gorman, who became the youngest inauguration poet in US history when Joe Biden was sworn in as president, says she is attempting to “preserve the public memory of a pandemic” in a new collection published this week.

Gorman shot into the public eye when she recited her poem The Hill We Climb at the inauguration in January, speaking of how “there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, / If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

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