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WritersCorps: Mentoring Youth Through Writing

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Kendra Allen

by Melissa Hung

As Kendra Allen took the mic, she was the picture of calm. Smiling in a smart orange blazer, she confidently introduced her poem, “Bay Bridge: Tell it Like It Is” to a packed room of more than 100 youth at the San Francisco Main Library. The poem, written from the point of view of the Bay Bridge speaking to its sister, the Golden Gate, opened the reading segment of WordStorm, an annual literary carnival produced by WritersCorps.

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