Poetry Revival… Can the powerful words of Amanda Gorman bring back an appreciation of the spoken word?
The scatting rhythm, near-perfect cadence, and power of the words that came out of the mouth of 22-year-old Amanda Gorman on Inauguration Day — may have just changed the world. But how? The art of the Spoken word has been around for decades, why are we able to embrace it now?
The recipe for any powerful prose is a confluence of events. It is part history, part timing, part heart. The biggest ingredients are digging deep into your soul and those around you to churn out the exact words, the precise phrase that will resonate and perhaps get stuck in the reader’s mind. With poetry as in song, this phenomenon is only possible for a few outliers.
I would venture to say that life of Amanda Gorman, both her challenges but more importantly, her perseverance led her to this day to shine. Standing there like a Goddess, wrapped in a golden cloak, with a red crown resting on top of her apex, leading her high into the sky, to dispense her 22 years, but hundreds of years of history to this exact moment, when the world not only listened to embrace every syllable — every rhyme in a way that has changed us forever.
As a writer and a teacher, poetry is something that is often glossed over and only given the slightest time frame in a…
