![]() She was encouraged by supportive friends to enter and share her experiences. Vasilopoulos said the ceremony was her first time reading her poetry. “Basically turning one emotion into a whole story.” Honorable mentions “It’s just been a really great way to express words that I didn’t really know how to express,” he said. Naing said his interest in poetry started as an exploration of a potential fun new hobby. “With that, I want to inspire kids that are younger than me to also do that, while taking lessons from ones that are older.” “I was actually going through a rough time in the past week, and I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to come here, but I’m glad I did because it kind of goes with the theme of struggle, hope and resilience, that I was able to push myself to come here,” Naing said. The poet laureate ceremony was a more professional and large event than he expected. Poetry is a recent hobby for Naing, who said he only started writing it just four months ago. ![]() He then moved to Utica a few years later. Proctor High School, Naing was born in Thailand and moved to Houston when he was 4 years old. You can then acknowledge that it exists and once you’ve acknowledged that it exists, you can do something about it.”Ī student at Thomas R. “And that’s very powerful, because once you can define something, once you can add the language to it and the terms to it, you can then tackle it head-on. “I think the cool thing about poetry, for me, as I’ve realized over the years, is it’s putting language to everyday experiences,” he said. Manguwa said poetry is an avenue for dealing with the inter- and intrapersonal. But the more I go out and I read more and I interact with other poets – amazing poets, by the way – I realize there’s always room to learn and room to grow for me.” “I would think what I wrote is perfect, it’s amazing and it’s the greatest thing. “I used to be a very selfish writer when I started on,” he said. Now a student at Hamilton College, Manguwa traveled from Zimbabwe to South Africa before coming to the United States.īeing named the NAACP Utica-Oneida County Chapter's poet laureate is surreal, Manguwa said, and something he will process along the way.
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