# @fromthebowseat on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CGc98GOASta
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73155313-fromthebowseat-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-10-17T17:13:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs 🪸 (@fromthebowseat) — https://gondola.cc/fromthebowseat

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“They say that the victor decides how history remembers the world. But I disagree. I think that the artists decide how history remembers that world.” - alora_has_an_instayam, high school senior and Nashville’s 2020 Youth Poet Laureate

The young black poets featured in this interactive collection of stories by the nytimes (link in bio) are living proof that—no matter your age or background—you (yes, YOU) have a unique view of the world we live in and the power to tell your own story 📖

“I don’t feel like you have to study poetry for like 10 years or something to be able to write a poem. … You have to feel powerful about something,” said featured poet Ava Emhoff, a seventh grader at NEST+m in Manhattan.

What do you feel powerful about?
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