This segment was previously aired in 2019.ДecemRhiannon Giddens, Americana's Queen, Goes Global The contributor Jake Halpern tells Vjeran Tomic's story excerpts from Tomic's letters from prison are read by the actor Jean Brassard. But selling these masterpieces proved harder than stealing them, and that's where Spider-Man's troubles began. He eventually carried out a truly epic heist: a break-in at the MusГ©e d'Art Moderne, in Paris, in which he left with seventy million dollars' worth of paintings. Tomic has a grand sense of his calling as a burglar he considers it his destiny and has described his robberies as acts of imagination. He became known in the French press as Spider-Man, and he began to steal art. After moving to Paris, he graduated to lucrative apartment burglaries, living off the jewels he took and often doing time in prison. Vjeran Tomic has been stealing since he was a small child, when he used a ladder to break into a library in his home town, in Bosnia.(It was excerpted in The New Yorker with readings by Gorman.) She spoke with Young about being an inaugural poet-following in the footsteps of Maya Angelou and Elizabeth Alexander-in a conversation from The New Yorker's Poetry Podcast.ДecemFor a French Burglar, Stealing Masterpieces Is Easier Than Selling Them We've braved the belly of the beast.' The New Yorker's poetry editor, Kevin Young, wrote that her poem was 'as vibrant and elegant as her yellow coat against the cold.' After that very public dГ©but, Gorman found the stakes of writing the poems for her new collection, 'Call Us What We Carry,' to be impossibly high. Her poem 'The Hill We Climb' reads, '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. At the ceremony, Gorman herself seemed to cast light on a dark situation.

Gorman was just twenty-two years old, and it was just two weeks after Trump supporters had assaulted the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying the election. One year ago, Amanda Gorman delivered the inaugural poem on the day that Joe Biden became President.

DecemAmanda Gorman on Life After Inauguration

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