Erzsabet Gonzalez is a Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Champion. She has studied and performed with Brave New Voices and Get Lit – Words Ignite literary communities. Gonzalez’ writing has appeared in the New York Times, Upfront Magazine, and the Youth Speaks anthology, Between My Body and the Air. She is an undergraduate student earning both Bioengineering and Theater & Performance Studies degrees at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Learn My Curls

By ERZSABET GONZALEZ

Call me by my name. Say it / with the familiarity and reverence / of a spoken prayer.