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Jared Bowen On Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- So many people were struck by her age, Jared, 22 years old, she just graduated from Harvard, and look at this career already.
- Yeah, I should say, I misspoke, I said she couldn't graduate, but she didn't get to have the ceremony.
Yeah, and the poise, I think, comes from the fact that she just observes.
That's what I was most struck by her.
She could, at that time, she had also created this great poem called "The Miracle of Morning," and it came just from looking out her window, and observing the life outside, but also thinking of the struggles of other people, like Martin Luther King, Junior, Nelson Mandela, Anne Frank, so she thought about what they experienced, and channeled all of that, and I could tell you, she writes very, very quickly, and we saw lots of her gestures yesterday, the use of her hands, I think that comes from a tradition that she told me of storytelling passed down through her family, but also, this is interesting, she told me that she has suffered from a speech impediment, and so I think using her hands helps her get through some of those words that are more challenging to her.
She's just extraordinary on all levels.

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