This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Award-winning 12-year-old poet, Christin recited her poem, Nowhere to Go, that won the Anacostia Watershed Prize from River of Words – the largest poetry and art competition in the world. The River of Words program inspires children and youth to translate their observations about their local watersheds and environment into creative expressions in poems and paintings.
Christin is a national award-winning 11-year-old poet from
Washington DC. She won the 2014 River of Words Anacostia
Watershed Prize for her poem, “Nowhere to Go.” Conducted
in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book,
the annual River of Words contest is the largest youth poetry
and art competition in the world. The program inspires children
and youth to translate their observations about their local
watersheds and environment into creative expressions in
poems and paintings. In addition, Christin’s poem, “Starlight,”
was one of the winning poems at the Parkmont Poetry Festival.
In the 2014 Letters about Literature Contest sponsored by
the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, she was a
finalist for her letter to the author Wendy Mass. She was one
of the winning poets for her poem, “Destiny,” for the Dare to
Dream…Change the World Second Annual Writing Contest.
Christin is a native Washingtonian.
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