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To YWP participants,
Whether you realize it or not all of you are participating in a grand experiment -- Can we create a culture and community to encourage writing and then give you an audience for your best work?
Each week -- and now, on this site, each day -- you amaze thousands of people in newspapers, on radio and on this Web site with your insight, your skill, your freshness. The power of your words, your ideas and work, your humor and emotion and viewpoints are appreciated. And we are beginning to see reaction from all over the country.
Here's a recent reader reaction that is particularly strong, a letter published Wednesday Oct. 3 in the Burlington Free Press (with a few fixes)...
Young Writer's' poem touches reader
I'm at that age where I've realized I've become my father as I whisper "darn kids" under my breath as I read the news about them car racing on the streets or as I barely escape the wrath of an errant skateboarder while walking down the street.
But then, something totally unexpected happens and just about rips the air from my lungs. Emma Redden, a sophomore from Leland and Gray High School, perhaps only 15 or 16 years of age, had crashed into my heart with a poem so simple and tender that it had me transfixed, perhaps forever. Her poem, which appeared in the Burlington Free Press on Sept. 27 ("Young Writers Project:Giving young writers and audience") featuring young writers, is worth mentioning. Thank you so much Emma for sharing this with all of us. Your future in writing appears to be shining intensely.
MIKE DUMAS
St. Albans
Emma's poem actually was published as well in The Brattleboro Reformer, The Rutland Herald and the Times Argus on Tuesday Sept. 25. While this letter singles out one writer, we know that all of what you write is appreciated. Keep on writing! And if any of you have received feedback, feel free to share it!
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Gevalt
YWP Editor
