Inauguration Star Amanda Gorman Becomes First Super Bowl Poet
“These are the moments I strive for in my lifetime, which is to bring poetry into the spaces that we least expect it,” she said Sunday.

Screenshot via CBS/NFL
Poet Amanda Gorman’s second act after her viral performance at President Biden’s inauguration? The Super Bowl. The 22-year-old became the first poet to perform in the 55-year history of the event, reciting a piece dedicated to frontline health care workers. “It’s not an extant possibility that a poet will be at something like the Super Bowl, it’s just nothing I have really heard about before,” Gorman said Sunday, according to BuzzFeed News. “And so these are the moments I strive for in my lifetime, which is to bring poetry into the spaces that we least expect it.”
What a moment. @TheAmandaGorman #SBLV pic.twitter.com/v8VM9uhPww
— NFL (@NFL) February 7, 2021
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