The article emphasizes the low per capita funding for arts programming in Contra Costa County schools compared to other areas in the Bay Area. Students like Thomas Kasuga-Jenks express how poetry fosters resilience and encourages creativity, enabling them to imagine possibilities. Maya Colmenares highlights the importance of voicing truths through writing, while Yasmin Dos Santos Almeida shares her personal connection to poetry, linking it to her immigrant experience. The students collectively illustrate how arts education, particularly poetry, plays a vital role in their emotional and imaginative development, despite funding challenges.
"And arts programming is really important for imaginative life," Taylor said.
"You can make things that nobody's ever seen before," he said. "And sometimes the things nobody's ever seen before have them change their ways."
"In your writing, you can be strong and you can even proclaim that truth to other people, even if they don't agree."
"I think poetry has always been etched into me, like faith," said Yasmin Dos Santos Almeida.
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