Poetry Revival… Can the powerful words of Amanda Gorman bring back an appreciation of the spoken word?

elana.rabinowitz
3 min readJan 23, 2021
Amanda Gorman live on @NBCNews reciting the poem, “The Hill We Climb” photo credit elana.rabinowitz

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?

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