There’s an old political saw: You campaign in poetry and govern in prose.
That took on a more literal meaning Wednesday night as Amanda Gorman, the closest thing this country has to a celebrity poet, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago .
The former youth poet laureate of Los Angeles, who now holds that position at the national level, wrote a poem for the occasion. The 26-year-old Gorman gained widespread attention in 2021, when she became the youngest inaugural poet in the nation’s history and read “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of President Biden…