It is said that Amanda Gorman, only 22 years old, was the protagonist ofthe show during the ceremony inauguration of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, last month when he recited his poem “The Hill We Climb”. From that time, Gorman, the first Juvenile Poet National Laureate, signed with a modeling agency and will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV on Sunday, February 7.
Join the International Institute in a discussion of Gorman's poems read during the President's inauguration and the Super Bowl. The American poet Layla Benitez-James will moderate the virtual conversation, which will take place English en via Zoom. The event is open to adults and teens ages 16 and up.
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Some say that 22-year-old Amanda Gorman stole the show at US President Joe Biden's inauguration last month when she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb.” Since that event, Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, has signed with a modeling agency, and she will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV on Sunday, Feb. 7.
Join the International Institute in a discussion of Gorman's inauguration and Super Bowl poems. US poet Layla Benitez-James will facilitate the virtual conversation, which will take place In English through Zoom. The event is open to adults and to teenagers age 16 and up.
Layla Benitez-James is a translator, editor, and poet living in Alicante whose poems and translations have appeared in The Accents Review, PoetryLondon, London Magazine, Guernica, Waxwing, Kokoro Magazine, The Galla Science, and elsewhere. Her audio essays about translation can be found at Asymptote Journal Podcast. Her first chapbook of her, God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode But He Had to Make Sure was selected by Major Jackson for the Cave Canem 2017 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and published by Jai-Alai Books. She works with the Unamuno Author Series to bring amazing poetry to Madrid.