Amanda Gorman:
(Los Angeles, 7 March 1998).
American poet and spoken word artist.
She grew up in Los Angeles in a Catholic family. She was raised by her mother together with her twin sister. Until puberty, she suffered from a speech impediment. In her youth, she read the work of poet Toni Morrison and wanted to become a writer. At the age of sixteen, she published her first collection of poems, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough.
Before we ever put a pencil in a child’s hands, those hands should dig, climb, press, pull, squish, twist, and pinch in a wide array of environments and with a variety of materials.
