Amanda Gorman, Sociology Poet

 Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate, Harvard University graduate with a degree in sociology performed her poem, The Hill We Climb, at the inauguration of President Biden in 2020.  

Read about Poet Laureate Gorman on the Everyday Sociology blog and on the ASA's page.

In her book of poems, Call Us What We Carry, she weaves poetic inspiration with sociology.

Review by The NY Times here.

Discussed in The Atlantic here.

Reviewed in the Guardian here.

A review from The New Yorker here also includes a selection of poems read by the author herself, including Arborescent below:

Arborescent 1 pg 7

We are
        Aborescent-
What goes
        Unseen
Is at the very
        Root of ourselves.
Distance can
        Distort our deepest
Sense
        Of who
We are,
        Leave Us
Warped
        & wasted
As winter's
        Wind. We will
Not Walk
        From what
We've borne
        We would
Keep it
        For a while
Sit silent &
        Swinging on its branches
Like a child
        Refusing to come
Home. We would
        Keep.
Knowing how
        We would
Again
        Give up
Our World
        For this one.