WriteGirl Member Salome Agbaroji Named 2022 LA Youth Poet Laureate
/WriteGirl member Salome Agbaroji has been named Los Angeles Youth Poet Laureate for the 2022-23 year!
She is succeeding poet Jessica Kim, a WriteGirl mentee! This year, 12 additional WriteGirl mentees and alums were recognized as finalists or honorable mentions including: Amelia Namita Pinto, Alex Santiago, Milissa Sutton, Jazzmin Joya, Shandela Contreras, Ariana Maria Virginia Perez, Rhiann Sheffie, Flora White, Camila Delacerda, Sofia Isabella Flores, Althea Aguel, Colette Rogers, and Kate Taylor.
Congratulations to Salome and all of the WriteGirl finalists and honorable mentions!
Click here to view their performances!
In the Palm of Our Hands
Excerpt from one of Salome Agbaroji’s poems
As discos create hair dos undone
Strobe light, lipstick transfer
Make midriff glisten
Accept the bliss, manifest,
And bless it
With the heart in the
Palm of your hands.