1. Teen Poetry Night at the Bartlesville Public Library April 29, 2008

4. Identity Poem What is it like to be you? The poem builds in rhythm because each sentence starts with the contraction "It's... . For example slam poet Patricia Smith "What It's Like to be a Black Girl (for those of you who aren't).” "it's being 9 years old and feeling like you're not finished, like your edges are wild, ... ."

7. Poems by Process of Obliteration here in a word, into a position so little impracticable schemes after living free days on the Assabeth and Indian relics, after becoming imbued — it was time, as a change of diet, In some measure, naturally well balanced, organization, with men of altogether different qualities, i cared not, they were apart from me. developed in each and sky, passed away out of my mind. Suspended, Sad, Conscious that the past Lived too long; make me permanently into any shape considered other than a transitory life.

8. wiser transparency; scattered broken paragraphs, perceptions have come too late.

9. Websites used for this program Portrait Poems http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/portrait.html Teen Space Poetry Wiki http://www4.ipl.org:8080/index.php/WordPlay#WordPlay_Experiments