Amanda Gorman
@TheAmandaGorman
Poet
15-06-2014 22:27:34
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Because my poems often hit home a point, they’ve been called “speeches,” when in fact they’re inspired by sonnets, like Shakespeare’s: poems structured around arguments. I read 100+ sonnets when writing #TheHillWeClimb . Thx Paisley Rekdal for seeing that logic is part of lyricism