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NY Times Bestseller book: “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman captivated the nation, and the world, with the delivery of her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. At age 22, Gorman was the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration, joining a select group that includes Maya Angelou, Richard Blanco, and Elizabeth Alexander.

Amanda Gorman’s THE HILL WE CLIMB: An Inaugural Poem for the Country, a jacketed hardcover edition of her stirring presidential inaugural poem, featuring a foreword by Oprah Winfrey, has debuted at #1 on the New York Times adult fiction, USA Today, and Indie hardcover fiction bestsellers lists, with the highest week-one sales of any poetry book ever published.

Watch as Amanda Gorman reads “The Hill we Climb” at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris here.

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