Amanda Gorman’s 'The Hill We Climb' is under attack at Florida school. Reread it in full here.

Amanda Gorman is speaking out after access to her inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb" was restricted at a K-8 school in Florida.

The 25-year-old poet, who read her poem at President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021 to wide acclaim, took to social media Tuesday to share that she is "gutted" about the Bob Graham Education Center restricting the availability of her poem to the middle school section of its media center after "one parent's complaint." Officials at the school did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

"I wrote The Hill We Climb so that all young people could see themselves in a historical moment. I've received countless letters and videos from children inspired by The Hill We Climb to write their own poems," Gorman wrote. "Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech."

The Florida Freedom to Read Project, an organization dedicated to protecting "every student’s right to access information and ideas" per its website, shared the complaint filed against Gorman's poem as well as four other titles on the organization's Twitter account May 19. The complaint against Gorman's poem describes it as "not educational" and having indirect "hate messages." It also accuses the poem of seeking to "cause confusion and indoctrinate students." The complaints were filed by a parent of two students at the school.

The Florida Freedom to Read Project also shared a document containing a school materials review committee's recommendations for the titles in question. The committee determined that four of the titles, including Gorman's poem, are better suited for middle schoolers and should be available in the the middle school section of the media center. These include "The ABCs of Black History" by Rio Cortez, "Cuban Kids" by George Ancona and "Love to Langston" by Tony Medina.

One book, "Countries in the News Cuba" by Kieran Walsh, was deemed "balanced and age appropriate in its wording and presentation" and should remain available in the information section of the media center, the committee said.

The committee said Gorman's poem "has educational value because of its historical significance" and that "the vocabulary used in the poem was determined to be of value for middle school students."

The restrictions comes amidst a dramatic uptick in book banning efforts over the past few years. The American Library Association keeps track of challenges and bans across the country, and in 2022 recorded more than 1,200 challenges of more than 2,500 different books, nearly double the then-record total from 2021 and by far the most since the ALA began keeping data 20 years ago.

The actual numbers are likely much higher: Some challenges are never reported by libraries, and books preemptively pulled by librarians out of fear for their jobs are not included.

A recent analysis by PEN America found that many challenged books focus on communities of color, the history of racism in America and LGBTQ characters. In fact, one in three books restricted by school districts in the past year featured LGBTQ themes or characters.

Read the transcript of Gorman's poem reading at the inauguration below:

"Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam Vice President, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world: When day comes we ask ourselves, 'where can we find light in this never-ending shade, the loss we carry, a sea we must wade?'

"We've braved the belly of the beast, we've learned that quiet isn't always peace. And the norms and notions of what just is isn't always justice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it, somehow we do it. Somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken, but simply unfinished.

"We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one.

"And yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn't mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect. We are striving to forge our union with purpose. To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.

"And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us. We close the divide, because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside. We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another. We seek harm to none and harmony for all.

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"Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: that even as we grieved, we grew; that even as we hurt, we hoped; that even as we tired, we tried; that we'll forever be tied together victorious, not because we will never again know defeat but because we will never again sow division.

"Scripture tells us to envision that 'everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.' If we're to live up to our own time, then victory won't lie in the blade but in all the bridges we've made.

"That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare it, because being American is more than a pride we inherit – it's the past we step into and how we repair it.

"We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.

"In this truth, in this faith we trust for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us. This is the era of just redemption we feared at its inception.

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"We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour, but within it we found the power to author a new chapter, to offer hope and laughter to ourselves. So while once we asked 'how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe,' now we assert: 'how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?'

"We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free. We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our enaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation.

"Our blunders become their burdens but one thing is certain: If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy in change, our children’s birthright.

"So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left. With every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one. We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west, we will rise from the winds swept north, east where our forefathers first realized revolution. We will rise from the lake-rinsed cities of the midwestern states. We will rise from the sun-baked South. We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover in every known nook of our nation and every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful will emerge battered and beautiful.

"When day comes, we step out of D shade, aflame and unafraid. 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."

Contributing: Barbara VanDenburgh

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