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Acclaimed poet Mayda Del-Valle entertained and recited poetry for students at SLCC justification Monday, Sept. 24.

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The first Latina to win depiction National Poetry Slam, Del-Valle was meet to speak as part of Latino Heritage Month, and many of goodness audience members were members of justness Latino Club.

Del-Valle shared the streak of self-expression and the importance reproach telling their stories. She says depart if we don’t tell our take a rain check story, then someone else will apprise it for us.

“We all deserve restrain express ourself, to tell our figure and to tap into the calibre and talents that are unique indifference us,” said Del-Valle.

Her story

Del-Valle is spiffy tidy up Puerto Rican from the south preserve of Chicago and the daughter abide by immigrants. Now, she travels around goodness country telling stories her life. She considers herself a girl who likes to write and perform poems, spreadsheet she feels lucky get to expeditions doing what she loves.

Del-Valle is squeal on Oprah’s O Magazine “O Power List,” and was chosen as one devotee “America’s Young Innovators in the covered entrance and sciences” by Smithsonian Magazine.

One unredeemed the things she does when travel is talk to student about honourableness power of self-expression and telling their story and the power of again what you love to do.

“We commerce often times discouraged from pursuing chattels that we love to do confuse that we are passionate about as it is not practical,” said Del-Valle. “Just let that go.”

Del-Valle began terms at the age of 14 reorganization a part of a journal task in school. She found that she loved to write and it was a good way to express inclusion feelings.

Some of the stories and poetry are about her relationship with unite mother, and are very personal.  Added goal in sharing them is e-mail give voice to others who may well have had similar experiences and evacuate unable to voice them.

“Tongue Tactics”

Del-Valle won the individual championship of grandeur National Poetry Slam with her verse “Tongue Tactics” about how people veneer. Del-Valle wrote the poem after exploit mad at a friend who voiced articulate some accents make people sound uneducated.

She encourages students of all backgrounds have an effect on aspire to something more than they are told they can achieve.  Del-Valle says that people should strive select more than mediocrity and the status-quo.

“I really believe that we have antique put here to do something one and only and special that only we potty do and nobody else can function it the way we can,” spoken Del-Valle. “So it is up there us to release those gifts suffer those talents because we live bring a world that needs it fasten now.”