Within the first 40 days of the new year, the poet will have read a poem at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and read another poem at Super Bowl 55 in Tampa, Florida. It’s tough to find two bigger stages than that.

Here’s what you need to know about Gorman, from her rise to her wonderful words and how she fits into this year’s Super Bowl proceedings.

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Who is Amanda Gorman?

Gorman, 22, is the United States’ youth poet laureate. She earned that title at the age of 19, becoming the first person named to that role in the U.S., which has classically named a poet laureate but not one of the youth variety.

Raised near the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westchester, Gorman attended the New Roads School, a private school in Santa Monica. Gorman graduated from Harvard with a sociology degree in 2020. According to the Los Angeles Times, Gorman’s single mother, Joan Wicks, is an English teacher who “had a huge impact” on Gorman.

Gorman recalled hearing Ray Bradbury’s “Dandelion Wine” in third grade and having it resonate with her, per the Los Angeles Times, and the spoken and written word has flowed through her ever since.

Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration poem

Gorman gained national attention for the poem she read at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Jan. 20. She’d struggled to find the right words as the date approached, but the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol helped Gorman finish the piece, which she titled “The Hill We Climb.”

“I wasn’t trying to write something in which those events were painted as an irregularity or different from an America that I know,” Gorman told the Los Angeles Times. “America is messy. It’s still in its early development of all that we can become. And I have to recognize that in the poem. I can’t ignore that or erase it. And so I crafted an inaugural poem that recognizes these scars and these wounds. Hopefully, it will move us toward healing them.”

Gorman was handpicked by First Lady Jill Biden to read at the Inaugration. Dressed in bright yellow with a red hairpiece and gold both on her earrings and in her hair, Gorman spoke powerfully in her words and with her body language. Her final four lines were these:

“The new dawn blooms as we free it, For there is always light, If only we’re brave enough to see it, If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

Here’s the entire poem that Gorman read at the Inauguration:

Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration poem quotes

Why Amanda Gorman is at Super Bowl 55?

Gorman will read a poem at Super Bowl 55 to honor the three individuals named honorary captains for the game. That trio is made up of Los Angeles educator Trimaine Davis, Florida nurse manager Suzie Dorner and Pittsburgh-based Marine veteran James Martin, the three of whom are being honored for the work they’ve done during the coronavirus pandemic.

The poem will be read shortly before the start of the Super Bowl. While the NFL hasn’t announced a time, Gorman is supposed to recite the poem before the three honorary captains take part in the coin toss, so it likely will be within 20 or so minutes of the game kickoff, sometime between 6 p.m. ET and 6:30 p.m. ET.

If Gorman’s “big-game performance” at the Inauguration is any indidcation, you won’t want to miss her Super Bowl encore.