Youth Summit 2008
Express Yourself! Diverse Teens Taking Charge
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
9:00 am - 3:15 pm
The McGraw-Hill Companies
1221 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10020
Youth Summit 2008 was a full day conference for
New York City's Top High School Student Leaders
Featuring a special track for Youth Educators
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Poems from the Summit
Jerome Cunningham and Aaron Salinas
High School for Environmental Studies
What it iz
Real poetry searches inside of us
Real poetry portrays the genius within
Youth Bridge opens the door to discover it
Be free genius within
Take hold of the time where different ethnicities brought together
Take your crown you are the greatest.
This is Real Poetry
This is real poetry
Spoken unbroken verses that spit
Swiftly from my mind
Lips not chapped cutting through the air.
Being swallowed by brains creating
At Youth Bridge, we are genius.
But don't try and understand with your mind at this state
Just let it hit your soul and determine your fate.
Touch
Author: Edeline Pierre
How can you love
someone who has
touched you in
places you didn't
want to be touched.
Made you cry.
Said you was a
b with a witch, made
you feel like you was
around for their purposes
only, and in the end
left you their lonely.
So at night you cry and
you cry. You try to get
away from all the internal
devastation.
Damn I thought he was
a true man. Thought he was
a brother but touched me.
Betrayed by nothing of a
man. Now the love that
I have in my heart has
ended.
Partner Agencies: The Arab-American Association of New York, ASPIRA of New York Inc., CAMBA, Beacon 269, Camp Rising Sun, The Chinese-American Planning Council, The CityKids Foundation, Common Cents New York, Council of Peoples Organization, Habitat for Humanity, Ishmael and Isaac, Jeter's Leaders, Jewish Child Care Association, Korean Youth Foundation, Manhattan Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel, The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, The New York Tolerance Center, Ramaz Upper School, The Red Hook Health Initiative, Metropolitan Schechter High School, SAYA, Thirteen/WNET New York, Youth Venture.
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