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Right? So you moved from tee ball to poetry and were named the Chicago Youth Poet Laureate while you were still in high school. Do you remember any of those early poems?

Right? So you moved from tee ball to poetry and were named the Chicago Youth Poet Laureate while you were still in high school. Do you remember any of those early poems?

Right? So you moved from tee ball to poetry and were named the Chicago Youth Poet Laureate while you were still in high school. Do you remember any of those early poems?

Well, unfortunately for me, a part of the Youth Poet Laureate program in the city, every poet laureate is responsible for writing a chapbook, so like a mini book of poems. So I have, you know, a living archive of all the poems I wrote at that time.

Well, unfortunately for me, a part of the Youth Poet Laureate program in the city, every poet laureate is responsible for writing a chapbook, so like a mini book of poems. So I have, you know, a living archive of all the poems I wrote at that time.

Well, unfortunately for me, a part of the Youth Poet Laureate program in the city, every poet laureate is responsible for writing a chapbook, so like a mini book of poems. So I have, you know, a living archive of all the poems I wrote at that time.

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Do you ever go back and look at them and how do you feel about them? I think it's been a minute since I've looked back at them, but I think I have mixed emotions. Sometimes it's cringy just because I think that having a living record of things you thought as a teenager would just be cringy probably for everyone here.

Do you ever go back and look at them and how do you feel about them? I think it's been a minute since I've looked back at them, but I think I have mixed emotions. Sometimes it's cringy just because I think that having a living record of things you thought as a teenager would just be cringy probably for everyone here.

Do you ever go back and look at them and how do you feel about them? I think it's been a minute since I've looked back at them, but I think I have mixed emotions. Sometimes it's cringy just because I think that having a living record of things you thought as a teenager would just be cringy probably for everyone here.

You know, it's also like a chance for me that I'm trying to do better the older I get to also treat my younger self with care and appreciate what I was doing at that age, because I think you take for granted a lot.

You know, it's also like a chance for me that I'm trying to do better the older I get to also treat my younger self with care and appreciate what I was doing at that age, because I think you take for granted a lot.

You know, it's also like a chance for me that I'm trying to do better the older I get to also treat my younger self with care and appreciate what I was doing at that age, because I think you take for granted a lot.

Yeah, my advice would be go to that young girl you once were and give her a snack and a juice box, because it always worked.

Yeah, my advice would be go to that young girl you once were and give her a snack and a juice box, because it always worked.

Yeah, my advice would be go to that young girl you once were and give her a snack and a juice box, because it always worked.

Yeah, the after the game snacks.

Yeah, the after the game snacks.