Amanda Gorman to read poem at Super Bowl

Is anyone else already sick of her?

+1, R1.

The media are pushing her hard.

A poem at the Super Bowl? What's next, Chopin at the WWF?

I’m sure those enthusiastic and literary Super Bowl aficionados can’t wait for a half-time poetry reading.

I'm sure this is just what Superbowl fans want to see. She's going to flop harder than Janet's titty.

[quote] Is anyone else already sick of her?

Instead of still I rise, I want her to fall by now.

This shall end poorly.

Most viewers won’t even notice her.

Seriously, do meatheads really want to hear poetry at the SB?

Da fuq?

I hope it goes over better than LaToya’s poem.

[Quote]Amanda Gorman has been chosen as the first and youngest person to ever read a poem at the Super Bowl.

Oh, dear.

She could be 90 years old and being the FIRST, she would also be the YOUNGEST.

"Maya Angelou reincarnation Amanda Gorman has been chosen as the first and youngest person to ever read a poem at the Super Bowl."

How can someone be the FIRST and YOUNGEST at the same time? Dumbasses.

Lol @ NPR not editing their copy. Oh well, they are radio people.

I might be the only one but I liked this kid! She’s beautiful and her inauguration poem was quite touching. So this meathead will be watching her.

Was anyone really asking for this?

Fine, but isn't the "Maya Angelou reincarnation" crowning a little hasty?

[quote]Lol @ NPR not editing their copy. Oh well, they are radio people.

R14, I'm seriously curious as to why you think "radio people" would be less careful in editing their copy. Or am I missing a lame attempt at humor?

Pretty soon they’ll be calling her “Doctor Amanda Gorman“.

If she was ugly, would people think her poetry was that great?

Poetry is Apollonian; SuperBowl is Dionysian.

This is a colossally dumb idea.

Mommy, the Emperor is NAKED!

The Super Bowl is supposed to be a fun and carefree event. Why does EVERYTHING have to be so serious?

R18 Yes, like "Dr." Martin Luther King

So many people are going to sigh and roll their eyes when she reads.

Once again: This woman does not write poetry. She does not even write verse.

She writes Hallmark Mahogany "uplift" prose that is lifted from political oratory and the Rev. Wingding's clean-out-the-refrigerator sermonettes.

[quote]We are better because better is what we need to be. Reach, reach, reach upward and you will not look down. Onward, not backward! Together we shall RISE!!!!!!

Poetry has suffered enough in this country over the last 70 years. In-group tokenism celebrating cant and ignorance in lieu of content, meaning and the possibility of actual poetry serves nothing except her bank account and misbegotten sense of accomplishment.

R17: Because their primary medium is not print. Same with TV stations; if you ever read a news story on their sites, they’re a big mess.

[quote] Poetry has suffered enough in this country over the last 70 years. In-group tokenism celebrating cant and ignorance in lieu of content, meaning and the possibility of actual poetry serves nothing except her bank account and misbegotten sense of accomplishment.

I like what you say, R26. Would you include Richard Blanco in that also?

Is she going to ride a pole like a JHo? If not, then not interested.

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Chill fridgie, Chill fridgie and we all feel that love!!

Art Fart Shit Tit

A Self proclaimed twat who mixes a few words is now a genius poet lol 😆 She has as much talent as a tik tok has been. Anyone and Anybody can be a genius lately

R1 sick of her already

Her DL defenders seem to have fled the scene.

I hate her when I saw her instantly. And no, don't ruin superbowl

Out of touch again, DL. She'd never have been tapped for the Superbowl if the producers didn't see $$$.

IMG modeling contract too.

Her perfect Blue Steel will catapult her to the top.

I'm happy for her meteoric rise, but yeah, this is a really bad idea.

She needs to learn to say "no" sometimes. Her integrity went down the toilet when she signed the modeling contract.

Has anybody compared this fine young woman's moment in the sun to another beautiful brown Super Bowl ingenue?

She has a twin sister who is a documentary film maker. No doubt they are both talented with bright futures, but poetry at the Super Bowl? No. Just, no.

[quote] will read a new poem honoring three Americans for their work during the coronavirus pandemic.

Winken, Blinken and Nod?

Shuper Bowl!

I will kneel during her recitation in protest of this totally inappropriate occasion to foist this poem on the public.

I believe Anne Sexton read "Menstruation at Forty" at Super Bowl V in the Miami Orange Bowl.

Another "performing black" to please the White Liberal masters, and she will be richly rewarded. It's a mutual admiration society within the elite class.

I like her but this is a bit too much too soon. Modeling contracts, appearances at the Super Bowl??

What will the poem be about, an ode to chicken wings? Because that's what the audience will relate to.

But it would be kind of awesome if she did a poem about Colin.

She better be careful. Greta will cut a bitch.

She appears to reach for pollen and dust particles floating about her in the air as she waxes poetically.

R2 and R47 summed it up.

[quote]but poetry at the Super Bowl? No. Just, no.

Don't worry. She will appear but there won't be any poetry.

She better enjoy it while it lasts,and save those pennies too.

They also wanted her to sing," Shortnin' Bread," thinking it would be good entertainment for the darkies, but there wasn't enough time, since The Weeknd needed more.

She has three books coming out this year each with an announced first print of one million copies.

Expect award nominations especially for her children’s book, Change Sings.

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What an embarrassing kiss-ass piece.

R57 article is an example of the media desperate to prop up the hype. That no one asked for.

Luckily my team in is the damn thing so i will put up with ANYTHING to see a repeat!

Said No One: Poetry, yup, that’s exactly what the Super Bowl was missing!

If it’s not about the nobility of taking a knee during the national anthem and the importance of social activism and protest, I have no interest in watching.

She has also been booked to recite the poem at the Oscars, the Emmys, the Grammys, the opening of the new Piggly-Wiggly in Macon, the Bar Mitvah of Jamal Levine, and the the Daytona 500. She would have done it at the Tonys ( whenever that might be), but Jeremy O. Harris demanded he recite the poem at that event ( being the newest genius playwright of Broadway).

She's on Cameo now, where she will recite lines from the poem for you for the low price of $50!

In order to recite at a football game, she DID have to make some concessions. For instance, here is what she will wear for the recitation:

‘Super Bowl Toll’ by Amanda Gorman

Do you see the toll of a Super Bowl?

When a kneel can kill

When as a nation we’ve lost our soul

When an insurrection we can’t feel

Will the touchdowns fill the hole

I guess I can wait until

You see the toll of a Super Bowl

Color becomes her

R65 oh god, I hope she does something like that.

The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice!

I'd rather a poem than the national anthem sung at sports events so yeah, why not.

R65, Bravo! I tip my red headband to you.

During her reading, I anticipate a slow zoom that reveals a single tear falling from Tom Brady’s eye. This will be the first step in his campaign for 2024.

This will end in CHEERS!

they’re going to boo her, this is a bad decision.

R73 Who? The “fans in the stands” are cardboard cutouts.

Hey that gives me an idea for a poem!

‘The Fans in the Stands’ by Amanda Gorman

The fans in the stands

Will they pass the test

Do they believe these are my lands

Do they think they’re better than the rest

Watching suffering as the hourglass moves through sands

Regardless I will do my best

Whether or not I have the love of the fans in the stands

Egad. I hope they don't run this promising young woman into the ground. Too much, too soon?

“Man’s Hole” by A.G.

What happens, when

Man’s soul becomes

Man’s Hole?

Go home, and smoke a

Super bowl.

And, when, you feel injustice is but a door with a knocker

Remember Tom’s MAGA hat in his locker.

Where is his hat, and wife?

Is he dreaming of a future life?

Others have become President

Now, Bow! To my pigskin precedent!

we have a lot of poets here that may not know it!

I’m interested to hear Tom Brady recite his poem ‘Little Kisses’

True, r78.

And I’d like to help r77 straighten out his Longfellow.

R77 ‘s composition is a mess

Who wants a fucking poem read at A Super Bowl. What an idiotic idea.

It'd be funny if they hired an FX crew to make little buzzing bees or flies that she picked out of the air with those hand movements of hers.

Btw you're not allowed to call it the "Super Bowl" because of NFL trademark overreach. Instead it is to be referred to as a "Football tournament"

Next year for the half-time show performances by Renée Fleming, Patti Lupone and the cast of Wicked.

Fine calypso woman,

She cook me shrimp and rice,

Fine calypso woman,

She cook me shrimp and rice

Dese yankee hot dogs

Don't treat me stomach very nice.

In Trinidad, one dollar buy

Papaya juice, banana pie,

Six coconut, one female goat,

An' plenty fish to fill de boat.

One bushel bread, one barrel wine,

An' all de town, she come to dine.

But here is bad, one dollar buy

Cup of coffee, ham on rye.

Me throat she sick from necktie,

Me feet hurt from shoes.

Me pocket full of empty,

I got Calypso blues.

Dese yankee girl give me big scare,

Is black de root, is blonde de hair.

Her eyelash false, her face is paint,

And pads are where de girl she ain't

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R65 is 100x better than that non-sensical rant

Have they put a picture of her in the dictionary next to the word ‘smug’ yet?

And all viewers at home and in the stands are expected to take a knee as she recites and bestows her profundity upon all mankind.

That's Doctor Reverend, R18.

I hope Justin Timberlake doesn't expose her tit 'by mistake'.

R57, you do know you are referring to a newspaper that had an article recently about the inherent racism and cultural appropriation of Tiki Bars don't you.

Astonishing what has become of the great Grey Lady.

[quote] Amanda Gorman to read poem at Super Bowl

I momentarily read that as she would read porn at the Super Bowl

Don't bother stocking up on munchies for the Bowl. You are about to be served up an enormous word salad.

Maybe she'll surprise us and it'll be about sweat, muscles, testosterone, and hung jocks going commando in their spandex.

Op's pic with the yellow jacket and red hat makers me want to order a double cheese burger. Hold the pickles please.

Well, at the very least I hope she addresses in her poem the fact that Super Bowl Sunday has one of the highest level of domestic violence towards woman and the high level of domestic violence perpetrated by professional athletes.

Yeah R97 that will go over well and be a win for liberals! Deporables need to hear the Harvard-grad pretty black poet and model and liberal it girl of the moment condescend to them about toxic masculinity at Super Bowl half-time.

All that’s missing is Cardi B signing for the hearing impaired.

Hillaria Baldwina can sing the National Anthem in Spanglish.

Apparently the headband is $380 from Prada. Maybe Bernie should have slapped one on, to prevent the criticism he's getting for being a schlub.

Her inauguration poem was good but very derivative, like I had heard it all before in a weird mix of Hamilton and Harry Potter.

Marina Abramović produces a half-time installation featuring the girls gymnastics club from The Islamic Center of America Mosque in Dearborn, MI, narrated in French by Malia and Sasha Obama.

[quote]Yeah [R97] that will go over well and be a win for liberals! Deporables need to hear the Harvard-grad pretty black poet and model and liberal it girl of the moment condescend to them about toxic masculinity at Super Bowl half-time.

Her presentation is scheduled for the pre-show, not Half Time.

Her hand gestures seem quite chinese operatic

^ Oops

Stirring performance

r48: agree ........but Kaepernick's preening anti-voting stance (saying there was no difference between Hillary & Trump in 2016, and having no regrets afterwards for not voting) makes him no hero. Did any journalist have the balls to ask him if he voted this year?

His attitude is what Stacey Abrams was fighting against.

The next insufferable Angelou caged bird singing. When will she add Dr. to her name?

My ass is burning, and slowly turning, my dildo all the way around. Its so consoling, when you're Super Bowling, to have a dildo in your ass !

[quote]Next year for the half-time show performances by Renée Fleming, Patti Lupone and the cast of Wicked.

Do you know who the star of the first Super Bowl half-time show was?

Carol Channing.

I'm not making this up.

I didn't know that. Clearly, it's been all downhill ever since.

I like her, but this is an odd venue for any poetry reading.

J Lo shaking her titties on a stripper pole is more their roll.

It's odd, but seize the moment. If Amanda Gorman's moment of celebrity gets millions of people to listen to poetry, why resist?

IT ISN'T POETRY, IT IS A STREAM OF COUNCIOUSNESS SHOPPING LIST.

Her biggest talent is clearly for networking and self-promotion, not poetry. Very few real poets would be interested in a gig at the Super Bowl. I mean, you want to reach a wide audience, but also one that cares about what you do.

Her poetry is alright, but for the modern Millennial and Gen Z poets it's about the performance. I expect she put more time into memorizing and choreographing her performance than the poetry itself.

To reciprocate, NFL players have graciously agreed to perform at her next poetry reading.

If they truly want to get across her message to greater America, show should perform it at NASCAR.

The rest of America can just look at motivational bumper stickers because that's basically her message.

I'd rather watch David Alan Grier play Maya Angelou again and re-extoll the virtues of Butterfinger, Pennzoil and Froot Loops.

If Amanda Gorman was a chubby white or Native American girl from Nebraska who wrote pretty “poetry”, would we have ever heard of her?

No.

The gushing and fauning is over a marketable commodity that perfectly suits America’s current and temporary ‘wokeness’. It isn’t about poetry. It’s about the skin color and self-adoration of this young lady. You know that as well as I do.

Bump

She didn't actually show up? What was all the hype?

She's the first, so even if she's 105 she's the youngest! Everything is twisted into a fucking milestone.

I forgot all about her, and missed her appearance.

This is from Twitter.

Loathsome

"The gushing and fauning is over a marketable commodity that perfectly suits America’s current and temporary ‘wokeness’. It isn’t about poetry. It’s about the skin color and self-adoration of this young lady. You know that as well as I do."

It's supposed to show that America isn't racist.

Totally inappropriate venue for her work.

Her 15 minutes of fame apparently was extended to 16.

Her twitter page actually says "For inquiries, see below." She's a gold plated whore.

And yet the NFL continues to boycott Colin Kaepernick.

[quote] And yet the NFL continues to boycott Colin Kaepernick.

Because Kaep was a shitty quarterback.

GUSH

FAWN

ORGASM

She should have told the NFL to go fuck themselves. Now she’s just a sellout whore.

I'm thinking of sending Dr. Gorman an inquiry for the text of her Super Bowl poem to be inscribed on my tombstone.

^

But how will you replicate the famous hand-movements on your tombstone?

Her compositions are shit. The inauguration was a one-off, fueled by the excitement of the event.

R136 you could have the tombstone put next to a tree with a huge beehive, so when people visited they would flee, making the hand movements to keep the bees away!

Very underwhelmed. The hand movements are old. Hopefully, she can go away now

O amateur!

She's like the woke version of Bart Simpson and his catch phrase "I didn't do it."

Poetry is part of black culture in a way that white people don't generally know. I think it's nice although I am not interested in her or the Superbowl.

[quote] Poetry is part of black culture in a way that white people don't generally know.

Would you like to share some of that culture, R142?

I spent some time at an HBCU. Young black people write and perform poetry the way that young white kids start-- or used to start-- shitty bands. Poetry isn't limited to "woke" types in the black community.

R144 You seem to suggest Amanda Gorman might be classified as a 'woke poet'. Can you suggest other names we might seek out to repair our ignorance?

That's fucking horrific.

Which is ironic since her poetry puts me to sleep.

Not poetry. It's not even the pretentious kind of non-poetry - it's just creative indentation.

Did anyone notice that the books behind her during her TV interviews were color coded? I was wondering if that was actually a stage set or those were rented books from that Books by the Yard place. I think she's been stage managed by Oprah or Oprah's people at her behest.

It's way too early to be making Maya Angelou comparisons, as well.

[quote] I think she's been stage managed by Oprah or Oprah's people at her behest.

I bet there was an army of stage managers dressing, advising, grooming and primping for the biggest audience that young person will ever get in their life.

After all, we've never seen Richard Blanco again, have we?

Blanco’s picture book flopped. So there’s hope.

R150 it was during/after the inaguration when the newscasters were talking about how her outfit and earrings were a gift from Oprah who had taken her under her wing. Since then I've noticed that even her interviews look managed. She's definitely not got that "girl of the people" vibe.

Oh, I was wondering who would pick out a $400 headband. Oprah would.

She's a Harvard grad. No HBCU for Miss Prada Thing.

(OK ok, yes she comes from a humble family.)

Hunny, She's got Michelle Obama's backing.

R155 Oprah is the one most involved with her.

I’m not a literary scholar, but to me this seems more like a High School graduation speech or sermon with some rhyme thrown in.

And it’s nice that she’s a girl from a humble family who managed to get into Harvard, but you know that for every girl in her position there are a thousand other equally talented girls from equally humble backgrounds who will never get that opportunity.

Her success creates the illusion that in the US anyone who has talent can make it, when in reality it’s just like winning the lottery. Every now and then the elite lifts up one talented person out their unprivileged background so as to distract from all those talented others who are left behind. Both the Democrats and Republicans seem to be eager to maintain this illusionary meritocracy.

They both are.

Roses are red

violets are blue

I didn't watch the Super Bowl

Because I had to brush my tooth.

I loved it

[quote] but you know that for every girl in her position there are a thousand other equally talented girls from equally humble backgrounds who will never get that opportunity

So, none should be able to then? Keep 'em all down - don't dare give the other's hope!

This was on all the European news reports like it was the greatest thing since fried chicken.

Please don't mention fried chicken, it wounds.

r158 no, it's Oprah. Michelle has her own shit she's doing.

She seems very sweet, but I have to admit, she’s not a good poet. I keep waiting for someone in the public eye to say it! It makes you wonder if they just put a token person up there for optics. I wish they would have looked for better talent.

[quote] It's way too early to be making Maya Angelou comparisons, as well.

Especially if she's too young to start drinking.

Everytime I see OP's pic, I wonder why she has a red, plastic, dog's bowl on her head.

"She seems very sweet, but I have to admit, she’s not a good poet. I keep waiting for someone in the public eye to say it! It makes you wonder if they just put a token person up there for optics. I wish they would have looked for better talent."

If you criticize her in any way, you're a racist.

What's Cousin Pam doing reciting poetry?

R165 Who in the public eye is even "qualified" to judge poetry in 2021? It's not like authors and writers are top intellectuals like they used to be.

The last time I tried to post about poetry, someone said they wanted to “straighten out my Longfellow.” Poetry is hot! Care for a Rimbaud session?

[quote] If she was ugly, would people think her poetry was that great?

I can't answer your question, R19 but I think this, below, is more like poetry.

R161 No, instead the US have a system where all universities are good, instead of just a handful.

Always so well put together

Girl of the Earth

I wish I was bankrolled by Oprah, damn.

She's the "it" girl!

She’s really the Lupita ‘Lulu’ Nyong’o of 2021

when will this cooze disappear?

"Oh, I was wondering who would pick out a $400 headband. Oprah would"

I walked in and before I could even browse this shop bottom whines, "Ma'am, the clearance rack is over there". I said, 'Gayle... talk me down'. Breathe, breathe...

I said: "Wrap everything in this store up and send it to my California mansion. Lock the doors... and oh- you're fired".

Find your spirit.

An avalanche!

She's overexposed and prematurely heralded as genius, but no one is allowed to criticize her.

The Biden administration want to sell us consumers some of the Biden brand of "Hope'.

It's almost as useful as the Catholic Church's brand of "Hope'

Sorry, R183, it's actually Oprah selling her.

How do people even become known as poets? I assume that writing good poems isn’t enough to get you published or noticed.

There are publishers who sell poetry books. Also little magazines. They have this stuff at Barnes and Noble. Some of them are poets working in university English departments, it's a tiny world and they get grants and awards with small cash prizes. Almost without exception this poetry stinks. There are also Instagram poets like Ms. Gorman, and they also have book deals which are presumably more lucrative than the academics. They are today's Rod McKuen.