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The Book Case

Amanda Gorman’s Poetry Slays Monsters

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Gorman is an American treasure. Her inaugural poem, The Hill We Climb, stunned audiences around the world in 2021, and her tome of poetry, Call Us What We Carry, spoke to the pain and powerlessness that the world felt while locked down by COVID-19. What you might not know (and now we hope you do) is that she is also an accomplished children’s author. Her latest, Something, Someday teaches kids to make the world a better place by starting small while thinking big. Illustrated by the talented Christian Robinson (who also joins us), Amanda’s words reach out from the page to say that no one is too small to make a difference. Books mentioned in this week’s episode: Something, Someday by Amanda Gorman, Illustrated by Christian Robinson Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman Change Sings by Amanda Gorman, Illustrated by Loren Long The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Deacon King Kong by James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride You Matter by Christian Robinson Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renée Watson, Illustrated by Christian Robinson The Last Stop on Market Street by Mark de la Peña, Illustrated by Christian Robinson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It can't have been net-betted. Can it? Last season was 26 games, 26 losses and minus 137 goal

0:06.4

difference. Oh my God. It was just battering after battering. It was pathetic to be perfectly honest.

0:12.2

What have I got myself in for here? Welcome to Tunley. It's me, Harry Redneck, and I'm back in the dugout

0:18.8

with spec savers. trying to turn around the

0:21.2

fortunes of the worst football team in the country.

0:24.4

Follow Tunley Athletics journey by searching Specsavers' best worst team on YouTube now.

0:35.9

Welcome All of America, who I'm sure is listening. Welcome to the bookcase. I am Kate Gibson.

0:41.8

And we welcome you back to the bookcase with Charlie and Kate. This particular podcast, we think,

0:46.5

will be great. So stick with us for the next half hour or so. We think we've got a really big show.

0:52.4

Now, that's about a horrible, a piece of poetry as you will ever, ever encounter.

0:57.4

But why did I do something so disgraceful, Catherine?

1:00.9

Ah, because you wanted me to instantly quit the show and take it over and do it yourself.

1:06.6

Done. No, I'm just kidding.

1:08.1

I assume you did it because we have an amazing poet as our guest

1:11.4

today. We do indeed. You know, one of the things that we got in the comments that we've seen

1:16.1

on Apple podcast, somebody wrote us and said, why aren't you talking to poets? And we thought,

1:21.7

great idea. We should be. And we couldn't think of a better poet to start with than Amanda

1:26.4

Gorman. Six minutes changed her life.

1:29.7

She was the one who read the wonderful poem at the Biden inauguration.

1:34.3

And I think she stole the show.

1:36.4

Everything else was sort of anticlimactic because the poetry was so lovely.

1:41.6

Isn't that true?

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