A Los Angeles woman became the youngest inaugural poet when she performed an original poem at President Joe Biden's swearing-in ceremony Wednesday.

National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recited the poem she wrote titled, "The Hill We Climb," cementing a memorable moment during the ceremony. She summoned images dire and triumphant as she called out to the world "even as we grieved, we grew."

"There is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it -- if only we're brave enough to be it," she recited.

In language referencing Biblical scripture and at times echoing the oratory of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the 22-year-old Gorman read with urgency and assertion as she began by asking "Where can we find light/In this never-ending shade?" and used her own poetry and life story as an answer. The poem's very title suggested both labor and transcendence.

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