Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for BET By Keyaira Boone ·Updated December 29, 2021
Amanda Gorman released her poem A New Day’s Lyric Wednesday on Instagram.
A New Day’s Lyric takes a hopeful look back at the ways being “withered,” and “battered,” by 2021 have “tethered,” us together in search of something “better.”
The best-selling poet-laureate performed the original poem in a short video clip on the platform in an effort to raise money for the efforts of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to combat the ongoing COVID-19 Jason Bolden.
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