Amanda Gorman’s poetry collection — originally called The Hill We Climb and Other Poems — will publish as CALL US WHAT WE CARRY, on December 7. The collection will still include the poem she read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration “The Hill We Climb,” which was published as a standalone in March. Gorman says in the announcement, “I wrote Call Us What We Carry as a lyric of hope and healing. I wanted to pen a reckoning with the communal grief wrought by the pandemic. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever written, but I knew it had to be. […]