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Cassidy Howard

“Poets look at the world in a completely different way than anybody else ever looks at the world, and I believe everybody should look at the world like a poet does.”  As a high school student, Cassidy Howard experienced InsideOut front multiple angles. A member…
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Yareli and Poetry for the People Billboard Photo Sara Faraj

Yareli

“To feel that somebody enjoys reading and getting inspired by the things that I made is awesome. I feel like an author now.” 10-year-old Yareli, a student in our Writer-in-Residence program, recently saw her own writing on a billboard in Corktown as part of Poetry…
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Talitha Johnson

“InsideOut was a launching pad for a lot of my career.” Talitha Johnson was a student at Detroit’s Mackenzie High in 2000 when InsideOut’s Writer-in-Residence program came into her life. Today she is a Marketing Manager at the Detroit Regional Partnership, a regional economic development…
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5 Stories for 25 Years: Aja

2015-2020: Aja “Citywide Poets brought me to the realization that everybody is individual and important.” Before I started Citywide Poets, I wasn’t doing poetry in secret, but I did feel like an underground artist. It started off as a class assignment back in sixth grade and…
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5 Stories for 25 Years: Candance

2010-2015: Candance Candance performing her original work at InsideOut’s inaugural Share the Light benefit. (2017) Why I Write by Candance  I write when people say I taIk too much.  I write to set the world aflame. I write to speak for those who are afraid…
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5 Stories for 25 Years: Justin Rogers

2005-2010: Justin Rogers “Citywide Poets was pivotal in my social and professional life because it offered me a sense of direction and hope.” When Writer-in-Residence Nandi Comer found me in 12th grade of high school, I was a very shy student trying to navigate where…
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5 Stories for 25 Years: Jasmine Dorsey

2000-2005: Jasmine Dorsey “This program is the reason I graduated high school.” I didn’t belong to any crew or group in high school because I always felt so different. I always felt alone because I felt too mature to even have friends in high school….
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5 Stories for 25 Years: Michael R. Jackson

1995-2000: Michael R. Jackson Photo Credit:  Zack DeZon “Literally every aspect of my writing career came because a teacher encouraged me.” I’m Michael R. Jackson, and I’m from Detroit, Michigan. I grew up on the west side of Detroit, right off the Southfield Freeway. Growing…
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Jorge

“My time with InsideOut gave me a voice. It helped me to see a talent in myself that I didn’t know I had.” Former InsideOut student Jorge Lopez began writing at Southwestern High School, where he was a participant in InsideOut’s Writer-in-Residence program. Today, Jorge…
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