Recently, Amanda Gorman’s magnificent poem “The Hill We Climb,” famously delivered at President Biden’s inauguration, was placed on a restricted book list in Florida. It joins a growing list of titles that have been removed from school libraries, and its restriction is a deeply dismaying example of censorship for the sake of political expedience. PEN America, an organization that defends free expression and literature, has identified over 4,000 titles that either have been removed fro...
