Showing posts with label Amanda Gorman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amanda Gorman. Show all posts

Saturday, September 25, 2021

The books of my life / Amanda Gorman / ‘I wanted my words to re-sanctify the steps of the Capitol’


 


The Books

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life


Amanda Gorman: ‘I wanted my words to re-sanctify the steps of the Capitol’

The youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history on Toni Morrison, the power of language and her debut children’s book


Saturday 25 September 2021


My earliest reading memory
My mom bought me a Hooked on Phonics reading kit when I was in early elementary school. I quite literally got hooked on reading and raced through as much material as I could.