Abstract
AS YOUR WRITING & READING TEACHER, and as a poetry enthusiast (fangirl), I was thinking about you yesterday as I watched Amanda Gorman perform her poem at Biden's inauguration, and then I was really thinking about you, students, as I watched Anderson Cooper interview her last night. I hope so much that you heard the poem, and I would truly love for you to watch the interview: she talks about the task to write a poem, the feel of words over images, the research she did from history and culture to pull this poem together. It is a feat that seems impossible. And she’s 22 years old. She said Yes let’s do this, she said This is a job for poetry.
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Recommended Citation
Prokott, J.
(2021).
As Your Writing and Reading Teacher.
Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal, 44(1).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56816/2471-0032.1098
