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2023 Student Winners of the Northeast Texas Poetry Contest, First through Fourth, Michelle Calderon, Maddy Smith, Morgan Thrapp, and Odalys Adame. COURTESY PHOTO
Are sprawling urban ghettoes, filled with homeless people, the real prisons of America? Does half of the American population lack the savings to cover a $1,000 emergency payment? Those statements might be true, and in the last three years of the Northeast Texas Poetry Reading, they were the kind of statements to be provocative enough to consider. But the sixteenth annual Northeast Texas Poetry…