Senior Brian B has been honored by being chosen for a Scholastic Art & Writing National American Voice Medal award. There are only 32 award winners across the country at this level. Congratulations!
The following is Brian’s artist’s statement about his poem.
“This is my first poem from my collection, ‘Stories from Somewhere Not Spoken.’ The focus of my collection is to fabricate anecdotes grounded in reality that are not vocalized nor intimate in today’s social sphere. “The Exodus Manifesto” tracks the story of an immigrant who, through promise and disappoint, comes to America for a better life. Through simplicities he finds some respite, yet the overall stigma of immigration still remains. My goal of the poems were to take a ‘statistic’ and hyper-focus on a single story, in hopes that some humanity will be added to the topic. The structure was based from music; something grand, artistic and beautiful to highlight and accent the story. The piece won a Regional Gold Key and American Voice nomination at the regional level, and went on to win the National American Voice Medal at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (out of more than 255,000 entries). ‘The Exodus Manifesto’ is also being published in the Spring Edition of the Claremont Review, an international magazine for emerging artists and writers.”
Watch Brian read his poem here.
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