For Young Writers, Poet Amanda Gorman Serves As Inspiration

There is something about poetry that captures in verse what often can’t be said.

The day after the pomp and circumstance of the Jan. 20 inauguration, a small group of young writers gathered on Zoom to dissect and admire the craft behind Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb.”

Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, struck a chord across the nation and among this group of high schoolers from Boston. They are part of a cohort of authors at 826 Boston, a nonprofit youth writing and publishing organization. Their instructor Asiyah Herrera prompted them to consider the weight behind the words.

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