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.
