“Self-Portrait Poem” by WITS Student Miyabi Schorn

April 29, 2022

i have a body small and impatient,
and feet that can jump,
arms that can climb,
fingers that can type,
a head that can nod,
my brown eyes that can see,
and a great big imagination.

Miyabi Schorn wrote this poem while a student at Lafayette Elementary School with WITS Writer-in-Residence Karen Finneyfrock. Miyabi read the poem to open our Ijeoma Oluo Presents Series event with Sonya Renee Taylor on May 2, 2022.

Posted in Student Writing Writers in the Schools 2021/22 Season Ijeoma Oluo Presents: Our Existence Beyond Trauma

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