“Poetry in the Super Bowl is an achievement for art and our country, because it means we think imaginatively of human connection, even when we feel like we’re crazy,” Gorman wrote on Twitter.
“I also can not repeat how exciting it is for me that others are excited to see poetry during a football match,” Gorman tweeted a few hours before her recorded performance was played. “What a time to live”
Gorman drew international attention for her powerful poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ (and her incredible yellow coat) during Biden’s inauguration last month, where she became the breakthrough star of the day.
Gorman posted an excerpt from an interview with Trevor Noah on Sunday afternoon. She recounted how even surprised she was at the appearance of poetry in the Super Bowl, but how critical it is to the art form.
“It’s not a possibility that a poet will be at something like the Super Bowl, it’s just nothing I’ve heard of before,” Gorman said. poetry in the spaces we least expect, so that we can fully wrestle with the ways in which it can heal and resurrect us. ‘
Here’s Gorman’s Super Bowl poem in full:
Today we honor our three captains for their actions and impact in a time of uncertainty and distress.
They took the lead and exceeded all expectations and constraints and increased their communities and neighbors as leaders, healers and educators.
James felt the wounds of warfare, but this warrior still shares his home with children at risk. During COVID, he even lent a live football to family and fans.
Trimaine is an educator who works uninterruptedly and provides his communities with hot spots, laptops and technology workshops so that his students have all the tools they need to be successful in life and at school.
Suzie is the ICU. nurse manager in a Tampa hospital. Her chronicles prove that hope in the tragedy is possible. She lost her grandmothers to the pandemic and fights to save other lives in the ICU battlefield, defining the leading heroes who endanger their own lives.
Let us walk with these warriors, go 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 although we honor them today, it is they who honor us every day.