Date uploaded: 2021-12-29 20:00:38

Amanda Gorman is still finding hope as we close another tumultuous year and head into 2022, weary and apprehensive. The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration made her an international sensation, released a new work Wednesday to mark the end of 2021. "New Day's Lyric" is a five-stanza, 48-line resolution with themes of struggle and healing known to admirers of "The Hill We Climb" and of her bestselling collection "Call Us What We Carry," which came out in early December. Gorman said that the that the "chaos and instability" of the past year had made her reject the idea of going "back to normal" and instead fight to "move beyond it." She added that she "wanted to write a lyric to honor the hardships, hurt, hope and healing of 2021 while also harkening the potential of 2022." Read her full end-of-year poem at our link in bio. Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for InStyle