Evan Wing, of Milton, is a senior at Rice Memorial High School. “I started writing poetry in the third grade, moved on to short stories and essays, and wrote my first book during the summer before my freshman year,” he says.
Jessica Austin, a junior at Essex High School, says of her writing: “I write all the time, forming little half-stories or even just one-liners in my head. Usually they don’t make it to paper. With this piece, I had just driven my little standard transmission Honda Civic successfully for the first time, so I got on the computer and let my inner monologue run. I guess good things come to those who write.”
This poem is based on a the meshing of a few memories, mostly regarding love and the peculiar places I’ve found myself this summer, but also of specific pinpoints of this season. I wrote this while watching fireworks at the edges of an enormous field.
Songwriter Pete Sutherland joins Jane Lindholm during Vermont Edition to perform two ballads written by students for the Young Writers Project to mark the Champlain Quadricentennial.