Rhyme and Reason

Inaugural youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman shares the cultural touchstones behind her upcoming collection,Call Us What We Carry,out from Viking Books.

PANDEMIC 1918: EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS FROM THE GREATEST MEDICAL HOLOCAUST IN MODERN HISTORY

by Catharine Arnold (St. Martin's Press)

"While writing my collection, it was a book that provided me with vital insight into how people had historically dealt with a global health crisis."

DICKINSON (Apple TV+)

"I watched a lot of the Apple TV+ seriesDickinson.Emily Dickinson spent so much of her life writing poetry in isolation, and as a young poetess quarantining, I really connected with it."

"TIME"

by Hans Zimmer

"When I write, I listen to instrumentals or songs from movie scores that tell a story. I love to listen to composers who I feel are great storytellers, but they don't use words, so I try to fill in that rhetoric myself."

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