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Girls Write Now’s Impact: Discovering the Power of Poetry with Mentee Kilhah St. Fort

November 25, 2020

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Kilhah and Amber Loveless

This #GivingTuesday, Mentee Kilhah’s words give us a glimpse of the impact of Girls Write Now’s powerful programming.

When I was struggling to cope with the overwhelming racial violence in the media and a truckload of uncertainties about my senior year due to Covid-19, Girls Write Now was there for me. Most days, I was moving around my house listlessly. I was practically a zombie. Then, I attended a Salon on Spoken Word Poetry led by Mentor Cynthia Amoah, and I started to come alive.

The environment of positivity, warmth and encouragement helped me transfer all my negative emotions into rich lines of metaphors and imagery. I was able to use sound and repetition to bring my poetry to life and call attention to topics that mattered to me.

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Through this salon, I learned to strengthen my voice and transform it into a weapon, both to defend myself and attack the systems that aim to harm me.

I remembered that poetry is not confined to books. It does not strictly belong to a seventeenth-century British poet and his endless sonnets. Poetry is the ache of a single mother’s back, the slight brush of your crush’s hand against yours, the tears in your eyes when you kiss your old life goodbye and embrace your new one. Poetry is people and more importantly, poetry is you.

—Mentee Kilhah St. Fort

With your help, we can continue to empower future change makers like Kilhah, offering a space for self-expression, healing and wellness during these challenging times.

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At Girls Write Now, we are saddened and horrified by the domestic terrorism grounded in the systemic racism and inequality we work as a community to challenge and change every day. We are here to support you individually and as a community through our robust programming. Check out our calendar to see our current offerings or visit our Life Resources page to support you during this time. 

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Looking for more purpose-driven work in the new year? Check out available roles to join the team! 

Friday Night Salon with Arisa White

Join us on Friday, January 15, 6-7:30PM EST for Memory, Metaphor & Magic: Writing Poetic Memoir with Arisa White!

GIVE. WRITE. NOW. And Thank you!!

Girls Write Now’s services are more essential than ever before—serving the hardest hit communities—and many of our young women and gender nonconforming youth have themselves become essential workers to help their families. They carry an enormous burden and face devastating loss, slipping further into poverty. To meet the need, we have enriched and extended our programs, leading the historical transition to virtual learning.

Get Involved!

Are you a licensed mental health professional who’d love to work with our community of writers and creatives? We’re seeking volunteer Wellness Advisors. Get more info & apply here!

Relive the Girls (Re)Write Now Awards

If you missed the awards, you can still watch it! Relive this revolutionary night of mini–master classes with honorees on empathy, art, activism & humor and Girls Write Now mentees on writing with purpose, climate justice & self-care. 

Writing from our Future Leaders

Taking Our Place in History: the Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology was published with support from Dutton and Amazon Literary Partnership, available for purchase from McNally Jackson Books and anywhere ebooks are sold!

Girls Write Now in the News

Girls Write Now’s work has recently been featured by the National Endowment for the Arts, Time Out New York, NYXT and more!

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