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JBWC@FirstFriday

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 JBWC@First Friday Categories: Official JB Events Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

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Where:
Allen Street Dress Shop
89 Allen St
Buffalo, NY 14202
Date: June 1, 2018
Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Come listen to the stellar Just Buffalo Writing Center Youth Writers read their work before checking out Exist: Pride First Friday 2018 right outside the door!

Featured readers:

BIRCH

Birch is a 16-year-old advocate, poet, and visual artist. She is a proud black muslim who tries to distill the wonder she feels for the life around her in any medium she can get her hands on. In her free time, Birch likes to listen to NPR and tend her little garden. Also, she is pretty sure she’s gonna be president (or something) if she can just get through adolescence…

HANNAH

Hannah Nathanson lives in Buffalo, NY, where she attends City Honors School and acts as a Youth Ambassador for the Just Buffalo Writing Center. Her poetry has been published in journals, such as Philosophical Idiot, Peach Mag, Curate Journal, Ghost City Review, and My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry. For more information visit hannahnathanson.wixsite.com/poetry or check her out on instagram @h.annahrose.

SAGE

Sage Enderton is a queer poet and artist from Buffalo, NY. She has had her work published in literary works like Peach Mag, My Next Heart, The Buffalo Anthology, and Wordplay. She is a junior at City Honors, and loves iced coffee and loving boys, and loving girls; she is a proud LGBTQ+ creator and hopes to attend Barnard college next year, majoring in English and minoring in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She wants to change the world some day.

JAHTON


Jahton is an 18-year-old poet and rapper. He is currently at the end of his senior year of high school at Fredrick Law Olmsted, and is Youth Ambassador at the Just Buffalo Writing Center. His largest influence being Eminem, he has been writing raps since he was 13 years old and has worked tirelessly to perfect his craft. It shows.