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By Ashlee Banks ·Updated May 26, 2022
Amanda Gorman wrote a poem spotlighting the issues of gun violence in the U.S. in response to the Texas elementary school mass shooting.
In a tweet the National Youth Poet Laureate wrote, “Schools scared to death. The truth is, one education under desks, Stooped low from bullets; That plunge when we ask Where our children Shall live & how & if.”
The 24-year-old poet said, “It takes a
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