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Like most of us, Amanda Gorman has been cooped up in her West #LosAngeles apartment because of the pandemic.

Unlike most of us, she got some very exciting news recently: she’d been handpicked to read a poem at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

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Gorman, all of 22, became the Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles at age 16 in 2014 and the first National Youth Poet Laureate three years later.

Come Wednesday, she will be the youngest poet to recite her work at a presidential inauguration.

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The incoming first lady, Jill Biden, was a fan of her work, and convinced the inaugural committee Gorman would be a perfect fit.

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Gorman has written her poem in pandemic-induced solitude. While writing “The Hill We Climb” — which should take about 6 minutes to read — the poet listened to music that helped put her “in a historic and epic mind-set."

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Gorman also wrote her poem while watching pro-Trump extremists storm the U.S. Capitol, a scene she found “jarring and violating” but not surprising.

“I think we’d seen the signs and symptoms for a while,” she said.

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Gorman is working on her confidence as a public speaker as she grapples with a speech impediment.

The poet, who has performed in front of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hillary Clinton & Malala Yousafzai, struggled for years not to say “poetwy.”

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Read more from @julia_p_barajas about Gorman, her work and the poet's plans for the future at latimes.com/entertainment-…

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