the poet listened to music that helped put her “in a historic and epic mind-set,” including soundtracks from “The Crown,” “Lincoln,” “Darkest Hour” and “Hamilton.” While writing “The Hill We Climb” - which should take about six minutes to read at the ceremony in Washington, D.C. But the enormity of the task was not lost on her. ![]() Whereas Angelou had strangers at the supermarket inquiring about her progress in the run-up to her reading at Bill Clinton’s inauguration, Gorman has written her poem in pandemic-induced solitude. When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.” “It’s made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be. “But I don’t look at my disability as a weakness,” said Gorman. The girl who would grow up to perform in front of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai struggled for years not to say “poetwy.” ![]() “But for me, there was this other echelon of pressure, which is: Can I say that which needs to be said?” Gorman has labored to perfect sounds most people take for granted. ![]() In fact, like her predecessor Angelou and the president-elect, she grapples with a speech impediment.Īll writers, she said, experience anxiety about the quality of their work. Gorman is a lot better at it now, but still working on her confidence as a public speaker.
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