Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Gorman demonstrates that she’s not a one-hit wonder

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

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Okay, y’all, new job stress is real, and that stress has absolutely sucked all the energy and time out of me to read books, but I’m back! And what a book to read to reinvigorate myself! Like a lot of people, I absolutely fell in love with Gorman’s skill and voice when she recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration. In her first collection of poems Call Us What We Carry, Gorman demonstrates that her first presentation to the world was not […]

Poetry that’s actually readable. Read it.

Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

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I suspect like most of the world, I learned who Amanda Gorman was within hours of Joe Biden’s inauguration. Turns out her collection Call us What We Carry is every bit as good as “The Hill We Climb” which is included as the final poem in the book. I should be up front, I don’t typically read poetry for fun, in part because I work with it so much professionally. Gorman’s book though is an exception, even more so in that it wasn’t a struggle […]



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