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Ispeech mpediment5/17/2023 ![]() She told CNN that she and Biden are both in the “speech difficulty club.”īiden has previously spoken about overcoming a stutter. We’re descended from freedom fighters who broke their chains and changed the world,” she added. “Whenever I perform - and I definitely did it this time - and I close my eyes and I say I’m the daughter of Black writers. It was hard for me not to just copy and paste ‘My Shot,’ and email it the inaugural committee and be like here’s my poem,” Gorman told CNN. Also beyond that I think ‘Hamilton’ is such a great American cultural piece of what it means to be a better country. It’s why I included it in the inaugural poem. “That’s been a huge part of my speech pathology. Gorman told CNN in an earlier interview that she would practice “Aaron Burr, Sir” from the Broadway musical “Hamilton” to overcome the impediment. So it was me rising I think as well as the country at that time,” she told the morning show. “But also it was this amazing full-circle moment for me because if I’d written this poem three years ago, I wouldn’t have been able to say it. “I was kind of like why in the world did I put ‘rise’ in my poem five times,” she said, referring to her usage of the word in her poem. She recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” during Biden and Vice President Harris’s inauguration at the Capitol. ![]() Gorman made history Wednesday as the youngest inaugural poet in the nation’s history. I had to really work at it and practice to get to where I am today,” she said. “It would take until probably I was 20 to say, meaning that I couldn’t say words like poetry or even Gorman, which is my last name. In an interview with “Good Morning America” on Thursday, Gorman, 22, said that while she didn’t suffer from a stutter, her speech impediment “was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the ‘r’ sound.” Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman opened up about having a speech impediment, saying she and President Biden, who dealt with a stutter, are both in the “speech difficulty club.” ![]()
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