The 22-year-old Gorman can boast being the youngest poet to give an inaugural address in American history.
(Meera Dasgupta holds the 2020 title.)
Gorman says she was wearing yellow in the video that Biden initially saw of her.
“When I am on stage, I feel electric.
I feel like I could breathe fire,” she toldCBS News.
“Poetry is a weapon.
And so for me, it’s always existed in that tradition of truth-telling.”
Gorman worried she would struggle when writing the poem for such a monumental occasion.
