Anne Mengue is a new-to-country Apollo High School freshman who has impressed her EL (English Language) teacher and administration with her poetry skills. She’s one of the recent winners of Apollo’s Black History Month Writing Competition. Mengue moved to St. Cloud from Cameroon, Africa in August. She was very excited to start school. In Cameroon, … Read more
BRING ME TO THE SKY By Willow Ramsey Bring me to the sky and show me what you mean. Bring me where water runs, undisturbed, clean. Bring me a blanket to lay in the sun, Bring me to places where battles were won. I want to go there and see what you see, I want … Read more
Listening to Our Stories “Now more than ever,” says poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, “literature matters.” That piece of wisdom may seem likely to fall on deaf ears of the average high school student, but 21 students from the Alternative Learning Center (ALC) in St. Cloud became active listeners at the recent pre-conference workshop led by … Read more