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So what can we say about the Podium Poet?

22 January 2021

4:47 PM

22 January 2021

4:47 PM

So let’s talk about the poetry thing and the poet who read poetry at the inauguration. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman who recited the poem ‘why my cat is better than my ex-boyfriend Steve’on the national podium. She is the Podium Poet. 

Podium Poet is 22 but seems too young to save America, not like Greta who looks too old and crankier and may be dating Steve even though he’s probably too old for her and already has a girlfriend. She doesn’t look like a poet; she looks like Celebrity which is the opposite of poet unless you are Pam Ayres and its 1974She models a smashing canary yellow jacket and contrasting red hat like William Carlos Williams’ The Red...

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