Your name is like a car that appears in a sideshow.
Your name is like someone’s favorite song.
Your name is like a cover fresh out of the dryer
on a cold day. Your name is like feeling
the adrenaline while on a roller-coaster, like
a two time loser’s second chance at life. Your name
is like a repetitive poem and the energizer bunny that
gets stuck in my head and keeps going and going and going.

– D’Mario Webb

From the 2009 WritersCorps postcard anthology “Swap Meet” at Ida. B. Wells High School

Poem of the Month: August 2010

In English my name means everybody’s name
in Spanish it means a long name, my name
it is like a big tree with lots of leaves
it is like the waves changing and changing
and like flowers because as years pass
many people will have my name

– Catherine Morales, age 14

From the WritersCorps book “My Name is To Grow” at Mission High School
Poem of the month: September 2009