I attended the 2019 and 2020 Camden Conferences with my Gould Academy AP Gov teacher, Dr. Brad Clarke. The 2019 conference theme, "Is this China's Century?", inspired my essay, "Cybersovereignty: Redefining Digital Citizenship in the Cyber Era."

The 2020 conference theme, 'The Media Revoluation: Changing the World,' led to my essay 'Ideological Bias in the Media: Red Feed Blue Feed = How Democracies Die.' My essays are available at the links below.

"Complicit"

This is a black out poem selected from over 2,500 entries from as far and wide as the NY Times is distributed. The poem's inspiration comes from watching several seasons of a highly successful reality show. I am currently working on a suite of visualized poetry. [Click on the link to this poem published in the New York Times. Scroll down to the bottom of this page for more on my "Visualized Poetry" project.] Thank you, Prof. David McCann, for telling me about the NYT contest, and for supporting my interest in writing poems, especially Sijo!

My poem, "Ménagerie," is a collection of original Sijo. It was published in the "My World" Anthology of the American High School poetry contest (2019).

For a recent Sijo, visit my Places/Maine/more page at: http://www.sophielaurence.com/gould-academy