The Sacramento Bee Presents

“Patrice Hill gives voice to city’s youth”.

First, write a list of characteristics you must have to be accepted by your family and friends, Patrice Hill told 25 students in a Grant High School classroom this week. Choose one that defines you. Then, cross it out and write, “That’s not who I am” underneath, she said. Now free write about why you can’t be defined by one word. Students hunched over the fold-out tables, put pencil to paper and started writing. Hill is the coordinator and a poet-mentor for Sacramento Area Youth Speaks, or SAYS, an organization using slam poetry and spoken word to fight illiteracy and promote personal expression in disadvantaged youth in school districts around Sacramento.

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