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Megan Stockton
Megan Stockton Writer-in-Residence “Sometimes students are more hesitant to speak up in class as they are working between languages, and it is amazing to see their voice come out in a poem.” Megan’s time as a Writer-in-Residence has allowed her to teach in some non-traditional…
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Shawntai Brown
Shawntai Brown Writer-in-Residence “Students cheered when it was time for poetry. They were eager to share, and they were sad when the residency ended.” When Shawntai was a student in school, she experienced InsideOut as a young writer. Now she is an InsideOut Writer-in-Residence herself….
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Audra Kubat
Audra Kubat Writer-in-Residence “I saw growth in many of the students’ confidence in speaking and reading in front of each other.” Audra, an accomplished singer-songwriter, uses her love of and experience with music in her creative writing pedagogy as a Writer-in-Residence with InsideOut. Oftentimes, she…
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Sakila Islam
Writer-in-Residence Program, Detroit International Academy for Young Women & Citywide Poets “Knowing all I need is a pen and paper to go from a seventh-grader who liked poems to performing at the White House has made me appreciate just how much a little push in…
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Hajjar
“Aside from finding yourself, writing is a great coping mechanism, and it allows you to see the world around you differently. I don’t think I’ve felt this sense of community anywhere else.” InsideOut’s 2017 Detroit Youth Poet Laureate, Hajjar Baban, is a Pakistani-born, Afghan-Kurdish poet…
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