Activist and poet Amanda Gorman, the country’s first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, 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: Pittsburgh-based Navy veteran James Martin, who volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project and works with children at risk, Los Angeles educator Trimaine Davis and Tampa ICU- nurse manager Suzie Dorner – who were specially invited to the game by the NFL.
Watch her full performance, pre-recorded by the NFL, here:
Gorman, 22, is the first poet ever to recite a poem at a Super Bowl game. “These are the moments that I strive for in my life, which is to bring poetry to places where we least expect it, so that we can fully grapple with the ways it can heal us and bring us a little bit to life,” she said. she. Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show.”
The young activist, who has nominated several original works on behalf of “CBS This Morning, ‘became a viral sensation when she performed her original poem’ The Hill We Climb ‘at President Biden’s inauguration. She is too the youngest poet to recite a poem at a presidential inauguration.
She told CBS This Morning, co-host Anthony Mason: 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 you to tear the language and destabilizes in what you work with. ”Inherently you push against the status quo. And so for me it has always existed in that tradition of telling the truth.”
Gorman’s poem followed musical performances from Grammy-winning recording 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 provided an original rendition of the national anthem. ASL executor Warren “Wawa” Snipe also signed the two songs.
