People are praising Amanda Gorman for her history-making performance after she became the youngest-ever poet to read at a presidential inauguration.

On Wednesday, the 22-year-old delivered her original composition, "The Hill We Climb,” a work she finished after the Capitol riots, at the swearing-in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

According to the first National Youth Poet Laureate, she wanted the poem to be a “message of hope and unity”.

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