Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman’s next literary project is a collaboration with a prize-winning illustrator for a children’s book coming out this fall.
1. “Atlas of the Heart” by Brene Brown (Random House)
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NEW YORK (AP) — May this be the day
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Battered, we come to better.
We come together.
Mourning, we come to mend,
Battered, we come to better.
1. “Twelve and a Half” by Gary Vaynerchuk (Harper Business)
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1. “Call Us What We Carry” by Amanda Gorman (Viking)
3. “Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives” by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic)
3. “Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives” by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic)
Asserting that “our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation” in “The Hill We Climb,” inaugural poet Amanda Gorman urged the nation to account for its history to heal the future.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A Hollywood event that’s supposed to be about women’s empowerment in the industry and the world was more about how their rights are being imperiled at home and abroad.
1. “Peril” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa (Simon & Schuster)
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For what was billed as a “mini Met Gala,” Monday’s fundraiser at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brought out big names and bold fashion.
Amanda Gorman, who became world famous in January after reading “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, can still remember when she was just another young poet trying to find her voice.
When the Met Gala returns in September, it will feature a starry contingent of celebrity co-chairs: Actor Timothée Chalamet, singer Billie Eilish, poet Amanda Gorman, and tennis star Naomi Osaka.
1. “Ocean Prey” by John Sandford (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amanda Gorman revisits her inauguration day poetry reading that wowed observers, among them Oprah Winfrey, in the Apple TV+ series “The Oprah Conversation.”
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A writer who was chosen to translate American poet Amanda Gorman’s work into Dutch has handed back the assignment following criticism that a white author was selected to translate the words of a Black woman who is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.
NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America at the inauguration of President Joe Biden last month, again commanded the spotlight on one of the country’s biggest stages, the Super Bowl.
NEW YORK (AP) — Cicely Tyson was active to the end, in the middle of promoting her memoir “Just As I Am” when she died at age 96.
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — At St. Brigid Catholic Church, the Rev. Kenneth Keke preaches that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not only about eternity, but about “having a human face, loving one another.”
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Within hours of Amanda Gorman’s reading of the inaugural poem last week, bookstores were hearing from their customers.
Within hours of Amanda Gorman’s reading of the inaugural poem last week, bookstores were hearing from their customers.
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has selected three people who have served during the coronavirus pandemic as honorary captains for the Super Bowl along with inaugural poet Amanda Gorman for an original poem.
BALTIMORE (AP) — The president of a historically Black university in Maryland was so captivated by inaugural poet Amanda Gorman’s poem during President Joe Biden’s inauguration that he offered her a job -- on Twitter.
NEW YORK (AP) — The country has a new president and a new literary star. In one of the inauguration’s most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world “even as we grieved, we grew.”
NEW YORK (AP) — At age 22, poet Amanda Gorman, chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, already has a history of writing for official occasions.