Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman delivers stunning reading at Biden ceremony

People are praising Amanda Gorman for her history-making performance after she became the youngest-ever poet to read at a presidential inauguration.

On Wednesday, the 22-year-old delivered her original composition, "The Hill We Climb,” a work she finished after the Capitol riots, at the swearing-in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

According to the first National Youth Poet Laureate, she wanted the poem to be a “message of hope and unity”.

[elizabethbettencourt]

I didn’t know Amanda Gorman before “this”, after “this” I will never forget Amanda Gorman!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[bibbole]

AMANDA POETRESS, YOUR POEM IS TOO TRUTHFUL AND POWERFUL FOR FAR TOO MANY A POWERFUL PEOPLE TO HANDLE TRUTHS MORE POWERFUL THAN THEIR POWER COULD EVER BE-!!! THANK YOU-!!-I SHALL ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU-!!!BLESSINGS-!!!🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿

[herewardcruttwell-reade]

That's not a poem, that's a speech!

[fredbeverton]

Beautiful, powerful & meaningful after 4 years of trash & lies

[JohnSmith-cofq]

Amazing, tear jerkingly amazing. Watch this young woman, she will/should go very far.

[simongladdish]

Roll over Seamus Heaney. This girl is a poetic genie!

[staticcentrehalf]

Why? Just Why would anyone give this a 'dislike?' Beggars belief.

[ajhamilton]

It started out as a poem. It turned into speech. A divided speech. . Listen to Curtis Mayfield . If your mind could really see .' You'd know your colour the same as me.'

[Billywoo]

Amazing. The far right’s kryptonite! 👍👌

[jupiter]

Makes a change from the poetry of pelosi and aoc.

[atmos]

Before I'm accused of being a Trump supporter, I'm nothing of the sort. Because I dislike this does not mean I'm "bitter". This is just awful. Someone once said, '"M People's music is nightclub music for people who've never been to night club." Well this is poetry for people who don't know what poetry is. The fake hand gestures really put me off also. There are those that say history will remember this. I agree, but where I diverge, is that it will be remembered for how poor it was. The actual poem is just not good. And before I'm accused of picking on someone, don't stand up before the world and assert your vision of it, and expect nothing but platitudes. This is not poetry, it's just something in vogue.

[curiousuranus]

Stunning? Well there's some nice pauses.

[svenhassel]

I'm not gonna criticise a child but she was a token gesture for y'all

[oliviagatesfe]

Thumbs down on every biden vid says it all