This slideshow introduces students to Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate, who delivered an original poem at the Inauguration of President Joseph Biden on January 20, 2021. Her poem, "The Hill We Climb," is included in its entirety, both as read by her and in text, suitable for interpretation. Some key interpretative references are explained. The slideshow also includes Robert Frost reading "The Gift Outright," the poem he read at the Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961,