Amanda Gorman is coming to Stanford!
Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gorman

In partnership with Stanford Democracy Day, Stanford Arts, Stanford Live, Stanford Residential Education, Ujamaa House, Otero, Stanford Spoken Word Collective, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Stanford Department of African and African American Studies, and Stanford Medicine.

November 3rd, 2026Doors open 10:00 AMDoors close 10:40 AMDinkelspiel Auditorium

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  1. Inauguration poetry is a type of political-occasional poetry, a way of articulating a vision and hope for the temporal and symbolic moment of a presidency’s beginning. In this occasion of the midterms, what vision or feeling would you be trying to capture?

  2. How do you maintain the creative and artistic side of your work while writing for specific events / with specific messages in mind?

  3. How can we best incorporate poetry and the arts into our work in technology? Where does the intersection between the two lie and how do we best intertwine them?

Join us for a keynote from Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as she opens Democracy Day with a reflection on the promise of American democracy.

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