By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the inauguration's most talked about moments, poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world 'even as we grieved, we grew.' The 22-year-old Gorman referenced everything from Biblical scripture and 'Hamilton,' and at times echoed the oratory of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. With urgency and assertion he began by asking 'Where can we find light/In this never-ending shade?' and used her own poetry and life story as an answer. The poem's very title, 'The […]
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