{"id":921,"date":"2021-01-20T19:46:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T18:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=921"},"modified":"2021-01-20T19:48:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T18:48:58","slug":"young-poet-amanda-gorman-speaks-out-at-the-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Young poet Amanda Gorman speaks out at the inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching the inauguration proceedings, you were probably awestruck by 22-year-old poet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amandascgorman\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amanda Gorman<\/a>. Reading a brand-new work titled &#8220;The Hill We Climb,&#8221; which she finished in the wake of the Capitol riots, Gorman captured the moment in a way no other performer could.&nbsp;Gorman&#8217;s reading was wonderfully moving, both acknowledging the pain that we currently find ourselves in while holding out optimism for the future: &#8220;We turn our gazes not to what stands between us \/ But what stands before us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/beautyforabetterworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20inaugural-briefing-amanda-gorman-version-3-mediumSquareAt3X.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Amanda Gorman. Photo courtesy of The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is is why art is so important and healing in life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See her performance and read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.papermag.com\/who-is-inauguration-poet-amanda-gorman-2650042238.html\">https:\/\/www.papermag.com\/who-is-inauguration-poet-amanda-gorman-2650042238.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: PAPER Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been watching the inauguration proceedings, you were probably awestruck by 22-year-old poet&nbsp;Amanda Gorman. 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