Welcome to New Voices: Your Poetry and Short Fiction

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Updated 6/16/2010

The Talkabout for Summer is...

"What's your favorite way to have fun?"

- suggested by AGW Staff

Summer is the sun time, the fun time! What do you do to keep time from dragging on? Board games, computer games, sports, shopping, sleepovers? Tell us all about it!

Talk about it HERE!

Let's see what they said last month!

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Send your poems and stories to

agwriter2000@yahoo.com

IMPORTANT!!! a lot of girls don't sign their work so we can't use it or credit them!! Send your TALKABOUT to the email address below and DON'T FORGET to sign your submission at the bottom with first name, age, state or county and (if you have one with us) penpal number! SEND YOUR STORIES AND POETRY SUBMISSIONS TO:

agwriter2000@yahoo.com

CLICK HERE TO READ YOUR SUBMISSIONS FOR LAST MONTH'S TALKABOUT

WRITERS! Here's another chance to put your feelings on paper/computer screen. We'll give you a subject and you sound off about it. We'll publish as many responses as we can right here!

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Book picks for Writers!

pOEMS and sToRIES!

Written by: Girls like You!

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That's What I Thought

I want
to see hot tears
well up
in your eyes

I want
you to feel your heart
tearing
in half slowly

I want
your soul to shatter
pieces
stabbing as they fall

I want
you to feel yourself crushed
until
you can't tell who you are

Then look in the mirror
recognize what you see?
just an empty shell
emotionless and meaningless

Just
maybe then
you can
honestly say

I understand.

- Rachel, 16, Vermont

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Wolf

I see such sadness beyond the twilight.
Pain and sorrow and sadness,
I know few things,
I hear many things,
and I feel sorrow.

I lift back my head and howl;
Howl to show my sorrow and pain and
sadness.
For you.

For I will live among this earth until my very day of dying.
Some grieve for me, that they'll hunt me down and hurt me.
They'll punish me greatly for the fear I hold on them.
But I do not fear.

I will stand strong.
Stand strong for me.
For when these days of mine are done and gone,
Remember me, and cry for me.

As I have cried for you.

- Lauren, 12, Oklahoma (PenPal #16180)

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I wish I could be anywhere
But where I am right now
Head on my lap
Breath shaking with sound
Stuck between hope and sorrow
Undecidedly profound

You left me baffled
But with promise for more
Now I’m sitting waiting
Mistakenly unsure

- Morgan, 14, New York