America’s first national youth poet laureate. The youngest poet given the honour of delivering the presidential inaugural poem. Amanda Gorman. Not only was she able to craft and perform an exceptional poem, but she also did what English teachers have spent years trying to achieve. She made people who don’t like poetry, actually like poetry. […]
she sits in a bar, a beautiful dame, her eyes red as the blood her father bled: years of guilt. her mother cried pints of sorrow. now, she sits with an Irishwoman’s gloom over her head, hands hanging like misery’s allegory: the perpetual sin, the Irishwoman says, drunk in the light of her own melancholy […]