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Amanda Gohmann, welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm super excited.

I'm the one who should be excited because I mean, 2021 kicked off with a bang.

It's been a whirlwind for everybody, but I think for you more than most people,

it has been extra whirlwindy, which is a word I trademarked you can use one day if you'd like to

win one of your poems. You went from not just being notable because you read a poem,

the youngest ever inaugural poets, but also because of what the poem meant to people,

because of the inspiration behind it, because of how people felt after they heard what you did.

What has it been like for you? Just in this little period since the inauguration, what has your

world been like?

My world has been crazy. I mean, it's been turned upside down. I mean, when I was writing the poem,

I knew it was a historic moment. I knew it was an important moment, which is why I wanted to do

just service, but I wasn't really paying attention to the ways in which my own personal life might

change. So I went, I did my job at Poem, I walked off and just kind of expected everything to be the

same. And then I remember trying to open my Instagram just to, you know, look at other people's posts in

all of my apps had just crashed because of all the followers that were just, you know, flocking to

my channel. So it's been amazing and I'm still kind of absorbing and all like a sponge.

The poem, the hill we climb, wasn't just momentous because of the day it was performed on.

I think what made it special was that you incorporated up until that day the things that so many people

were feeling about America. If you don't mind, walk me through why you felt it was important to

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