Amanda Gorman is fast becoming a household name after she delivered a powerful inauguration poem at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, challenging Americans to unify and "leave behind a country better than the one we were left."

“Hers was a moving articulation for the moment — timely, lucidly constructed and in moments, elegantly sublime,’’ Kwame Dawes said of Amanda Gorman.

Gorman said the insurrection at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, helped spur her completion of the poem.

Amanda Gorman is fast becoming a household name after she delivered a powerful inauguration poem at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, challenging Americans to unify and "leave behind a country better than the one we were left."

“Hers was a moving articulation for the moment — timely, lucidly constructed and in moments, elegantly sublime,’’ Kwame Dawes said of Amanda Gorman.

Gorman said the insurrection at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, helped spur her completion of the poem.

Amanda Gorman is fast becoming a household name after she delivered a powerful inauguration poem at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, challenging Americans to unify and "leave behind a country better than the one we were left."

“Hers was a moving articulation for the moment — timely, lucidly constructed and in moments, elegantly sublime,’’ Kwame Dawes said of Amanda Gorman.

Gorman said the insurrection at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, helped spur her completion of the poem.

In the days leading up to Jan. 20, parishioners were calling the leader of St. Brigid Catholic Church to let him know “their very own Amanda Gorman” would be the one reciting a poem at President Joe Biden's inauguration. Enthusiasm was high.