Activist and poet Amanda Gorman, who was the country’s first national youth poet ever, recited an original poem before Sunday. Super Bowl Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Gorman’s poem, “Chorus of the Captains,” celebrated and introduced the three honorary captains – James Martin, based in Pittsburgh, who volunteers at the Wounded Warrior Project and works with children at risk, Los Angeles- educator Trimaine Davis and Tampa ICU nurse manager Suzie Dorner – who was specially invited to the game by the NFL.
Watch her full performance, recorded by the NFL, here:
Gorman (22) is the first poet to ever recite a poem during a Super Bowl game. “These are the moments I strive for in my lifetime, namely to bring poetry to places where we least expect it, so that we can fully wrestle with the ways it can heal us and awaken us,” she told Trevor Noah. in ‘The Daily Show’.
The young activist, who performed several original works commissioned by ‘CBS This Morning’, “became a viral sensation when she performed her original poem” The Hill We Climb “during President Biden’s inauguration. the youngest poet to recite a poem during a presidential inauguration.
His tell Anthony Mason, co-presenter of “CBS This Morning”, then said: “Poetry is a weapon. It is an instrument of social change … and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it requires that you break the language and destabilize in what you are working with. “Inherently you are pushing against the status quo. And so it always exists for me in that tradition of truth-telling.”
Gorman’s poem follows musical performances by Grammy-winning artist HER, R&B and pop star Jazmine Sullivan and Grammy-nominated country singer Eric Church. Grammy-winning HER sang “America The Beautiful,” while Sullivan and Church gave an original version of the national anthem. ASL Artist Warren “Wawa” Snipe also signed the two songs.
