I told my presenters their final grade rested with Beeks. Giovanni also reaches out to churches. She visited Bethel Church in Roanoke to speak on Women's Day. She teaches writing as well as poetry and literature courses, and she is a devoted, passionate teacher. Giovanni saw a need, for example, for a course for athletes, a course in which they would learn to express their feelings.
Writers do the same thing.
Our rejections are in private, but they're still painful. On the court, when you lose, everybody has an opinion. We need to get young people to write because there's a lot bottled up. Most of the kids have a perspective. They've been stars since high school, and that has a whole lot to do with how they look at the world.