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su nación
our country
our America,
and more?
We owe it
to show it
not slow it
although it
hurts to sew it
Hope—
we must bestow it
bringing with it
stories to rewrite—
a poem in America
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Copyright © 2017 by Amanda Gorman. Reprinted from Split This Rock's The Quarry: A Social Justice Database.
Author
Amanda Gorman
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom
Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
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