By Kate Flexter, ’10, A&E Section Editor

Rebecca Miller, ’12, started writing in seventh grade after attending a camp at Women Writing for (a) Change, but even before then poems and stories were always “playing in [her] head.”  She mainly writes free verse poetry; however, she also likes writing “little stories.”  Her favorite writers include J. K. Rowling, Sarah Dessen, and Billy Collins. In college, she plans to pursue education as a major, perhaps with a minor in math or theater.  Below, Rebecca shares one of her pieces called “Differences.”

Differences

If one were to take a survey of nature Camp

I would be the odd one out

sticking out like a sore thumb

a Midwestern Girl

in a sea of Southerners

but at Nature Camp,

they don’t treat me any differently than the next kid

unless they ask, they don’t know I’m not like them

and even if they do

they embrace it and me

they ask about the differences

and I tell them about where I live

about how the highest hills we have

are those made by man

and I tell them about living next to a polluted river

where nothing lives

and yet,

that is our claim to fame

and they laugh

and learn

and don’t care