戈尔曼被任命为美国全国青年诗人桂冠获得者，也是美国历史上最年轻的就职诗人。此前，她曾在拜登总统的就职典礼上朗诵了诗歌《The Hill We Climb》，这首诗使她成为了国际关注的焦点并使她一夜成名。奥普拉说道：“阿曼达·戈尔曼是一位年轻的女性，她以无比的优雅和尊严步入了历史时刻。从我们第一次见面的那一刻起，我就被她年轻的精神所吸引，非常希望听她讲述过去几个月发生在她身上的所有事情。”
You know Maya Angelou was a mentor for me, and when she was invited to write the inaugural poem, as I shared with you, for President Clinton, I sent her the coat and gloves and she wore them so beautifully.
And I wanted to continue that tradition, but you'd already chosen your fabulous coat. . .
- Amanda: Yes.
That's now gone viral along with your red headband.
So I sent you the ring, a caged bird, paying tribute to Maya, for that seminal book of hers.
Do you feel like the baton of those who came before you has been passed down to and through you?
Oh, that's a great question, and it meant so much to me to have my own piece of Maya with me in that moment because as I mentioned, when I told myself every time I wrote a poem to write a poem worthy of an inauguration, I would listen to Maya's poem.
I would listen to "On The Pulse Of Morning" probably every single morning of my last year of college.
So it was great to kind of exist in that same space in the inauguration.
And when I think-- I'll stop you right there.
