SPEAK UP PRESENTS MATURE ORIGINS: A CONVERSATION ON POETRY WITH YOUTH POETS LAUREATE SATURN BROWNE & EVAN WANG

Caitlin Villacrusis (she/they) is an aspiring Filipina American poet, a passionate photojournalist, and a self-confessed pessimist. A communication arts major and junior at a South Florida arts school, she is a Miami Book Fair Speak Up Student Ambassador and 2022 poetry mentee, and has participated in the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, the Ellipsis Writing Online Workshops, and the BreakBread Literacy Project Literary Apprenticeship. She is an avid fan of New York School poets, 1980s movies and music, Greek myths, and Marvel movies. You can find her on Instagram at @catrose2022.

EVAN WANG is the youth poet laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

SATURN BROWNE is the youth poet laureate of Connecticut and the author of Bloodpaths.