Anything that speaks to you
Hits a certain nerve within you
Doesn’t solely exist on paper
A song
A dance
A living kind of poetry.
– Jocelyn Thompson, age 16
From the WritersCorps book “Paper Dreams” at International Studies Academy
Poem of the Month: August 2009
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