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Sara Wright
a rising senior at New Bern High School, is attending Governor's School East in social science. Of herself, she writes: There is nothing to this kid unless you want to see her melodramatic pretenses as an intense sentence wrapped in 17 years of solitary confinement to the hip-hoppin'-est jail joint in town -- where her fluency in reality meant no more than an infected hangnail because everyone in the venue knew her. She lives on a map-filler called New Bern. She is an anarcho-primitivist and an atheist in love and hopeless commitment with the natural world. She aspires to be a happy nomad who writes a lot of words when she graduates college.
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Governor's School East meets at Meredith College in Raleigh for six weeks each summer. We thought it would be good to hear from some of the 400 North Carolina students selected to attend the intensive residential learning experience. So we asked poet Chuck Sullivan, who heads the English department at GSE, and reviewer Todd Shy to help us set up a poetry contest. They distributed fliers, made announcements and gathered entries. The winning poem, by Sara Wright, is below and the runners up are at share.triangle.com/bookclub. To learn more about Governor's School, go to www.ncgovschool.org/. And in coming weeks, looks for memories of Governor's School shared by many alumni. i joined the unionclarified the divisions betweenthe sinatra of the souland the resurrection ofblue jean backyard philosopherswith PhDs in future trendsand how to best analyze the datathat comes pantingto local crackheads in a dreamon a rooftopfallingfrom the way the skykisses after beer and all othercelestial wonders of the worldexist and fight in struggles ofpower as electricity oozesfrom their essence asnorthern lightning bugs flashhalfway through the nightgoggles reveal to campus crowdshow if they all turn their headsjust soand blink into the windthink real hardthey can be just like meand join the unionand earn a living too
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