
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate
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Amanda Gorman Calls On America To “Leave Behind A Country Better Than The One We Were Left” In Powerful Poem
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” and unify together as she delivered a stirring inauguration poem.

