Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America during the inauguration of President Joe Biden last month, has once again put the spotlight on one of the country’s biggest stages, the Super Bowl.
Gorman read an original poem Sunday during the preliminaries festivities in Tampa, Florida.
The poem, titled Chorus of the Captains, was a tribute to three people for their contributions during the pandemic: educator Trimaine Davis, nursing manager Suzie Dorner and Marine veteran James Martin.
Amanda Gorman, the young poet who delivered a captivating performance during the inauguration of President Joe Biden, opened the Super Bowl with a new work
The charismatic 22-year-old is the first poet to ever perform at the National Football League Championship, America’s most watched broadcast of the year
Gorman tweeted the importance of her poetry reading for the first time in the Super Bowl
Gorman did not perform on the field, but appeared in a recorded video message combining Gorman’s reading with images of Davis, Dorner and Martin. Gorman resigned:
‘Let us walk with these warriors / Continue with these champions / And carry out the call of our captains / We celebrate them by acting / With courage and compassion / By doing what is right and just / for while we honor today / are they what we honor every day? ‘
“They have taken the lead / exceeded all expectations and constraints / lifted their communities and neighbors / as leaders, healers and educators,” she said.
In her poem, Gorman cites the work of nurses as an example that ‘even in tragedy hope is possible’.
Gorman became an international sensation after reciting her original work The Hill We Climb at the Inaugural, a poem inspired by the attack on the American Capitol. She is pictured at the inauguration
Youth poet Laureate Amanda Gorman is pictured during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on the Western Front of the Capitol last month
Gorman delivers her poem Chorus of the Captains, in tribute to three people: an educator, an intensive care nurse, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Gorman did not perform on the field, but appeared in a video message
That Gorman brought poetry to the Super Bowl was an almost unimaginable clash of grace and brilliance. But if the Super Bowl, an annual ritual of excess, was an unlikely platform for a poet, it showed how much Gorman has grabbed the spotlight of the country since the inauguration.
Gorman, formerly the country’s first national youth poet, was the youngest person to ever recite a poem during the American inauguration.
Her reading of The Hill We Climb at the Capitol immediately became a sensation. An illustrated book of her poem quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists.
Shortly after the inauguration, she signed with IMG Models, an agency representing supermodels, tennis star Naomi Osaka and playwright Jeremy O. Harris.
The poem celebrated the work of nurse Suzie Dorner, seen here as she prepared for the coin before Super Bowl LV
Honorary Super Bowl captains, nurse Suzie Dorner, educator Trimaine Davis and veteran James Martin respond to the field before the game kicks off
The referee, Carl Cheffers, started Suzie Dorner, nurse Suzie Dorner, before the match
Health worker Suzie Dorner tosses the coin before the NFL Super Bowl game
This week, she discusses Time Magazine, in an interview conducted by Michelle Obama.
Gorman’s Super Bowl appearance was planned before the inauguration.
She seems to understand the insecurities of her reading aloud, the first in Super Bowl history. And with potentially 100 million viewers on CBS television, it makes for a very well-attended poetry consideration.
“Poetry at the Super Bowl is an achievement for art and our country, because it means we think imaginatively of human connection, even when we’re crazy,” Gorman tweeted before her performance.
‘I also cannot repeat how exciting it is for me that others are excited to see poetry at a football match. What a time to live.
‘I will honor three heroes who are the best of this endeavor. Here is for them, for poetry and a Super Bowl like no other. ‘
Prior to Gorman’s performance, the enigmatic R&B artist HER sang an electrified version of America The Beautiful, and Jazmine Sullivan joined country singer Eric Church for a duet of the American national anthem.
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Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan performed the national anthem before the NFL Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers