Writing, Amanda Gorman told the crowd, often reminds her of gridlock. “Poetry can be like being stuck on the 405 in traffic,” she said. “You know where you’re going and you know you have to be there by 9 a.m., but are you going to make it? We don’t know.”
among others — and spoke about how grief often serves as a conduit toward hope in her work.
“If I can enter this deep, dark place that also means I can reach the light,” said Gorman, who at one point told the crowd that she had attended the festival as a guest when she was 8. A few minutes later, she read aloud from “Fugue,” a poem from her new collection — the piece, she told the crowd, narrates what the first year of the pandemic felt like:Goodbye, by which we say to another—Let us be able to say hello again.
Earlier in the day, director Carlos López Estrada, known for his indie breakthrough “Blindspotting,” held an event with several young poets who he worked with onartists featured in the film,“We are a fertile people, throw us in the dirt and we will grow without sun, without water, without permission,” Ip said.
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