Tue, 16 Aug 2022 13:23:23 -0400
amanda-gorman, community-read

Call Us What We Carry (aka The Hill We Climb and Other Poems) by Amanda Gorman has been selected for the community read book for the school year 2022-23.

Stay tuned, we will have events featuring this book during the school year. Do you have an idea for an event? Share your idea(s) here.

Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.

In 2021, she delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden.