I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation

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KAIULANI SANCHEZ What is This Virus? What is this virus It makes you really sick Like is it the flu Is it like a fish that is ich They call it corona I thought that was a beer What is this virus It is causing a lot of fear What is this virus That is so very severe It’s been keeping us in our house For almost a whole year When the country shut down Our old lives did too You weren’t the only one That was feeling so blue Shutting the country down Was a very bad move All it did was destroy businesses Because our numbers still improved What is this virus We now have a vaccine Can we get back to normal I’m tired of looking at a screen

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About the Contributors

8min
pages 136-143

Kai Zanette: “We Wish We Were Kids Again”

1min
page 132

Stephen Wiegold: “A Distant Thing”

1min
page 131

Acknowledgments

1min
page 135

Emmett White: “The Land of the Free”

1min
page 130

Mia Villalobos: “This Last Year”

1min
pages 125-126

Joey Vetrone: “United or Divided”

1min
page 124

Abigale Wee: “Growing Home”

1min
pages 128-129

Jasmine Standez: “Untitled”

1min
pages 121-122

Dante Rogers: “Follow the Rules”

1min
page 113

Kaiulani Sanchez: “What is This Virus?”

1min
page 115

Audrey Rock: “As a Country, We Claim to be Indivisible.”

1min
pages 111-112

Olivia Perez: “All Eyes on Us”

1min
pages 104-105

Emily Rentel: “Take Me Out to the Capital”

1min
page 109

Charlotte Ragozin: “The Sun Rises”

1min
page 108

Anneka O’Brien: “Stay United”

1min
pages 101-102

Audrey Negrete: “Seeds to be Sown”

4min
pages 97-100

Madi Mullins: “Untitled”

1min
pages 91-92

Alessandra Morales: “A Time for Change”

1min
page 88

Sofia Nadeau: “Exigent”

1min
pages 93-94

Riley Mills: “America”

1min
page 87

Owen Miller: “America, A Country in Pain”

1min
page 86

Moss Michelsen: “Untitled”

1min
page 85

Sydney McGuirk: “Tense and Time”

1min
pages 81-82

Sadhbh McClenaghan: “Means the Toll of a Bell”

1min
pages 79-80

Ashley Lau: “My Everyday Fairy Tale”

1min
pages 72-73

Callie Hoffman: “Land of the Free”

1min
page 62

Kai Lester: “Everyone’s America”

1min
pages 74-75

Josephine Kearns: “A New Home”

1min
page 69

Jade Ireland: “For All”

1min
page 64

Dominic Katout: “Beauty and Spirit”

1min
page 68

Emily Jenar: “Untitled”

1min
page 65

Kaiya Hanepen: “We Must Restore the Soul of America”

1min
page 56

Kay Hildebrand: “America”

1min
pages 60-61

Kaylani Guevara: “Untitled”

1min
pages 54-55

Hailey Hernandez: “High School”

1min
page 59

Scarlett Glazebrook: “Death by the People”

1min
page 49

Valeria Lopez Gonzalez: “Fear”

1min
page 52

Iris Grant: “Land of the Free”

1min
page 53

Elijah Gjovig: “Untitled”

1min
page 47

Jordan Girard: “Everything is Okay”

1min
page 46

Nora Flynn: “Grass”

1min
pages 43-44

Mia Etheridge: “A Garden Grown in Wisdom”

1min
page 42

Lily Fortin: “The Voices”

1min
page 45

Cole Eckert: “Life”

1min
page 41

Hannah De Leon: “It Belongs to the Brave”

1min
page 37

Allison Co: “Untitled”

1min
pages 31-32

Coco Dubose: “A New Chapter, We Begin.”

1min
page 40

Brian Booher: “Everyday”

1min
page 25

Grace Bigelow-Leth: “Swirls of Gold Hope”

1min
pages 22-23

Noel Atkinson: “Let the Light Shine”

1min
page 21

After Joseph R. Biden, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama & Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Time to Heal in America: A Found Poem”

1min
page 17

Luke Aranda: “Speaking Loud”

1min
page 20

Denely Acosta: “The Fear We Have”

1min
page 18

Introduction by Aileen Cassinetto

1min
pages 15-16

Evan Alexander: “Untitled”

1min
page 19

Preface by Jim Ward

1min
pages 13-14

Foreword by Robin Rodricks

1min
pages 11-12
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