Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman performs her Independence Day poem

In honor of Independence Day, we asked 21-year-old Amanda Gorman the inaugural youth poet laureate of the United States, to write a poem. The Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart, performs one of the most famous July Fourth concerts each year. We asked them to bring music to her composition, "Believer's Hymn for the Republic."
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[@Destathebook]

Love this girl. She is terrific. Poetry is no longer a dying art. After that beautiful inaugural performance, I bet she has already ignited the interest and imagination of many to read and write poetry.

[@luckygardeniasdashboardcon9214]

Totally agree!!!

[@tedstahura7555]

Wow

[@jkbc]

Never seen a Poet like her...what a performance. I used to think Poem is a boring thing, until she brings it to life and expressive and make it connected to the current living.

[@sandrakostic5998]

I just listened to this young woman present the inaugural poem and I am in tears. What an amazing and heartfelt presentation! I feel lucky to have heard that poem.

[@SnookyFlowers1]

She is powerful!

[@jonathanwade5744]

Inspirational and forward thinking while being grounded in the hard truths of the moments we live in!

[@cynthiathomas2449]

Indeed.

[@Oshanamiisicooks]

She is perfectly beautiful and so smart,,am humbled to have a chance of life to get to hear her beautiful strong messages

[@janice8804]

Strength is her name and poetry is her way of life.....you go woman of wisdom...🥰👋

[@sevenoeightful]

What can I say. I'm in tears. Thank you, Amanda, for giving me hope for the future.

[@RukiaBlackBlazer]

A most beautiful dream for America's future. The work is now, not later. Beautifully done little sis, kudos.👊🏽👏🏿👏🏿

[@Whizkidsoo]

I can’t imagine all the kids she inspired and grown ppl like me, The everyday girl, with dreams, hard work, overcoming speech impediment she’s an artist, so talented... her delivery of words and passion stole the inauguration. I always wanted to be a writer/poet I wish I got to see her at a young age respect ✊

[@osenoir4608]

You can still do it

[@mariamawits3689]

How beautiful is this girl, literally inside out.

[@erikpeterson25]

Yes...exactly !!!

[@cpp263]

Her words, demeanor and strength are so moving.

[@thehardwearestv9672]

This young lady is nothing short of a blessing. I absolutely adore her!

[@elizabethmaginnis7965]

She is exceptional.

[@LolaDeVino]

Today, Friday, January 15, 2021 we need your voice more than ever. Crying. 🙏🏾

[@bobgarrett3367]

This is our glorious future. Inspiring!

[@sovereign721]

Wow!! Amazing words!!! Amazing Delivery!!! Amazing presentation!! Amazing/Beautiful/Brilliant young lady representing!! Standing ovation is well deserved here.

[@michaelstorto8658]

Amanda was chosen long time before all, to speak truth, to speak wisdom and love for all, to unite now with all might in the one spirit ,again, as the Fathers thought right. A black skinny girl born of slavery to bring all a new freedom of spirit, a lifting from white hate and fear to allow to break through incrusted dominion . The gift of dwelling in her words at this time, when we witnessed rebellion, that broke out to distroy the call of freedom and liberty of 245 and many years, we see the truth that only love one another will challenge all old and rusty upbringing. Amanda has sowed a seed in all as did the Fathers when chosing the words for this countries constitution, she - touches those words of the Fathers and makes them shine and glimmer and glow in our hearts and make them fly . Nothing is finished, this the beginning, of a new challenge to dismantle what thrives on inegality and hatred and killing.

[@ericsimiyu9397]

Love this girl..much love from Kenya Africa

[@yoso5934]

Wow!!! It’s amazing how her words are so powerful and how she expresses with her hands. You can tell she really means them🤎🌟🌸

[@yourface8698]

This is something everybody should listen to

[@alz123alz]

BEAUTIFUL BLACK SKIN, BEAUTIFUL INTELLIGENT PERSON

[@harryharry87]

Powerful, uplifting poem!! And I love her hairstyle!!

[@iamjamieq]

Just saw Amanda Gorman on Some Good News, and had to find more of her work. Can we make this poem our national independence day poem? Dang, this woman is inspirational!!!

[@sarooz48]

You sir saw the future.

[@maggieedwards3951]

Amanda Gorman absolutely brilliant 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👑poet laureate well deserved just beautiful inspirational , talent , ‘Everyday we right the future’ ❤️🇺🇸Maya Angelou would be so proud Happy 4 July all when it comes 🎉

[@khallidxjudah]

Maggie Edwards you would be saying something completely different if she was telling the truth how wicked this country is.

[@danielhopson2989]

Such a wonderfully authentic display of what it truly means to be appreciative of the many sacrifices that have made our country so great! Thank you!

[@lusiana05]

Bravo !! Ahh so beautiful, poised, brilliant & mighty.

[@maryannechan2545]

Our hope and dreams lies in amazing youth like her

[@mandyluzon6579]

She’s amazing 😭😭😭👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️

[@benniewright875]

So inspiring and wonderful; very talented. Tomorrow's leader. God bless her.

[@lrein077]

If she is joining the orchestra at the July 4th celebration in D.C. then this will be the highlight of the celebration. This poem should speak to the hearts of ALL AMERICANS.

[@aliyahheid]

She’s so beautiful; love the hair too. Phenomena woman!

[@investstrong878]

This lady is the Picasso of poetry!! I am not much of a literature critic, but I WILL definitely read and listen to hers!!

[@5hadœwbånnedbyyou]

You are one naive person. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Mtkrvi06]

I’m shocked at how GONE her speech issue is!?!? My 11yr old also struggles with the “R”....and I went through and listened to Amanda’s old poems to her new and the change in how she can use the R is amazing. I wish she would share what her therapist did or what SHE did if she did it on her own

[@babe9293]

She said she listened to the fellow in the play Hamilton. He had a song with a lot of “r’s”. She practiced his song a lot.

[@dcisajoke]

What a beautiful and talented young woman! So inspirational. 😍❤️👏🏽👏🏽🇺🇸

[@sonderexpeditions]

Ahhh, she's amazing! Perfect for inauguration.

[@ElleBoogie_]

My goodness, she's stunning. 👑💜👏

[@bbbeans]

you got that right. In every possible sense. Angelic.

[@kakandiaye2434]

she look like a sengalese; i see on her face my friend RABY GOD BLESS YOU GIRL BIG KISS FROM AFRICA SENEGAL

[@Sabledoux]

I love 💕 her 4c hair.

[@lf1496]

She sure does, just beautiful.

[@kayduncan7019]

Beautifully done!

[@freewillietoday]

I watched and heard her words at the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris today. Impressive, powerful, and passionate!

[@russellregan4736]

I love how she uses her hands & facial expressions when she recites her amazing poems

[@esmirami351]

She is striking in every way!

[@daphnerichardson8013]

Oh my goodness.What a talent.What a beauty.She makes my soul sing.Beautiful acompanying music.I love the arts they make me happy.

[@owades]

Daphne Richardson, the accompanying music is Peter Wilhousky’s famous arrangement of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” without the chorus or the words.

[@khallidxjudah]

Daphne Richardson y’all unconscious devils have no soul. Y’all stole this country from the native indians.

[@gervyNYC]

OMG she is GORGEOUS!!!!

[@mauriceboykin4422]

A gift from god for all Americans a national treasure god been america

[@regaagbaa3499]

God, please shield this damsel from the snare of this world.

[@MG-jj3pn]

Beautiful Support our schools and the arts.

[@VEGANSAM]

WOW!...MY GOOSEBUMPS HAVE GOOSEBUMPS!

[@VEGANSAM]

@sami yami LOL!...Love your name... But how do I know this is not ME...writing back to me?! This social isolation thing is getting to me! WHO AM I?!...HOW MANY AM I?!

[@reinadecastro3856]

Shes something!!wow!!

[@alexandrospirillis]

So wonderful!

[@robertwilson4030]

Amazingly talented and gifted.

[@joaobrandjr]

The way she conducts her moves along with the words, give wings to her poems and reach us all graciously. She wears her body as a free road of meaningful feelings; collective experiences that give us a place in her voice - which is our voice at that very moment as well - and place us, as Americans, in the top of an invisible podium in which we feel winners, already! I'm so glad Amanda exists and her poems are alive ! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@jemilatuaryee6809]

I watch you Amanda, tear up and believe that there is still hope for our future. Not just Americans but all around the world. Individually and collectively, everyday, we write the future. Wow!

[@blandinejonzo728]

Gosh ! I dream to have / buy all her poems and study them with my French students . I am starting the civil rights lesson next week . I for sure will introduce her to my Teens . She is my Revelation

[@thomaswilke6312]

So beautiful

[@GloriaPierson]

This is so beautiful and inspiring.

[@khallidxjudah]

Gloria Pierson more patriotic garbage

[@a.wilcox5690]

So beautiful!

[@justmyopinion660]

Beautiful confident well spoken young woman. Who just happens to be BLACK.....

[@donzellallen3394]

AND BEAUTIFUL

[@magus9130]

This young women will have a monument.

[@0otee]

‘Believers Hymn For The Republic’ by Amanda Gorman and so well done❣️🌹👌🌞🌺

[@blessings7015]

She is Brilliant and putting Strong emotions and True feelings in her Poetry as my Court of Arms would say's out of many one People.One Lyrics,One Nation coming together in Unity with justice for all God Bless everyone.

[@tspalding17]

I love this young person god bless you

[@alexandrospirillis]

Goosebumps!!!!

[@zwelimkosana9091]

Keep on shinning Amanda. AMANDLA 🇿🇦✊✊✊NGAWETHU

[@sixgrands]

Powerful!❤️

[@avebrown8510]

She has a way with words.

[@rking391]

Amazing!

[@flardimymathieu6783]

Go go Amanda Gorman you’re the one brilliant rising STAR ⭐️

[@savagefarmert]

This is pretty irrelevant compared to the substance everything she just said holds but her hair is so beautiful😍

[@lisacooper8507]

Love it. U go girl.

[@marianforeman8865]

AWESOME!!!

[@PipsKay]

Beautiful and moving and well said

[@ryancowell8578]

We need her for President!

[@elizabethmercurius8276]

Beautiful

[@isaacdugo619]

Wow....Amanda is one of the best poet of our time.😍

[@michael9865]

She is very beautiful

[@phatgirlfiddler]

Beautiful!!! I wonder, why are the musicians of the orchestra dressed so casual?

[@vedettejulien3620]

Elegantly girl

[@adammcewan7207]

What a fantastically superbly intelligent young lady with a real flair for writing and performing beautiful poetry

[@suzan2157]

Awesome#Strong# Beautiful

[@crismurray4857]

AMAZING

[@raswamuthoni2395]

Amazing performance 🎭👏🙌... can't get enough of this ❤

[@lidyapacheco4938]

Wow!!!!!

[@deannahuddle8357]

Wow, so powerful!

[@gloriawebster6708]

❤❤❤❤❤!!

[@keishapuryear8180]

I nominate Amanda Gormon to write the new National Anthem that isn't written with disdain for slaves as our current one does.

[@charlediasingleton4503]

SHE'S A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADY ❤️💙❣️ VERY TALENTED, I SEE HER AS PRESIDENT SOME DAY...,BUT, I WON'T SEE IT.....

[@danagovil1469]

Omg....brilliant 👏 👏

[@heroncabo3756]

Bom dia 🙏🙏🕊️🙏🙏 e uma beleza de Deus e talento...linda abençoada por Deus 🙏🕊️🙏🙏🕊️

[@bingchilling4800]

America !!! ❤

[@godis1st4me93]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@heroncabo3756]

Eu agradeço pela atenção de vocês okok...uma boa noite 🙏🏻🙏🙏🕊️🙏

[@pageturner1401]

Amanda has been Around a long time, and if it were Not for the Inauguration, I would have Never known of her.

[@shadreckgwenzi8846]

Amanda am stunned.... I have 112 books of psalms that I recite by memory ,Please be my adviser as am going to public media. I have kept it a secret that am a Psamist Poet.

[@catherinefox5078]

Give WEI hope of humanity!

[@marcymorales9601]

Beautiful ... 👏👏

[@lisacooper8507]

Love it. Well done. I am bi-racial.. I have been on the receiving end of ignorance & racism..ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! TIMES ARE A CHANGING..thankfully!!

[@ginafraser8808]

'Believer's Hymn for the Republic' --by Amanda Gorman, inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States 12 score and 3 years ago, to be exact, Our founders dared to declare The world's most revolutionary act: A pact sworn for liberty and equality. Out of many, was born one people; A teeming nation made of nations, At its very foundation a dream For life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today, we gather so that our Founders' words do not go diminished. But also so that the work does not go unfinished. For it's not just in a declaration of independence But the everyday declaration of its descendants That make a people equal. It is our right and our role To remember these words scratched on a scroll, So we may live them and heal our nation whole. We roll up our sleeves, we believe in the dream, And these American stories, in the glory of the struggle, For it is from our struggle that comes our nation's strength, For the lengths that we fight for what is right Is the fullest measure of our country's might. And while we cannot shake or cast aside our past, Every day we write the future. Together we sign it, Together we declare it, we share it, For this truth marches on inside each of us: Americans know one another by our love of liberty. When in fact, we are liberated by our love for one another. We understand that a house divided cannot stand. So let us make a pact to be the country that acts As compassionate as we are courageous. In the declaration's pages, we write a new order for the ages, Where out of many, we are one, Bright as a sun, and bold as an eagle, A nation of all people, by all people, For all people. Let this fourth of July Move forth our cry to redeem the dream. As we remember those words forever ignited That we the people have so long heard and recited. That we are right to stand But are revolutionary when we stand united.

[@claytusazong5483]

Clear, unforced diction, yet profound!

[@mainagithambo833]

The best poet in this planet

[@luckygardeniasdashboardcon9214]

Love this 🇺🇸

[@gilmoremccoy6930]

Brilliantly done Amanda👋!

[@jeansmark]

I love her hair. Beautiful naturally!

[@sparkmusictheatrale4664]

Good job