Voices, the Chapel Hill Chorus, recently announced Natalie Sherman-Jollis as the winner of its “American Dreams” high school poetry competition.
Sherman-Jollis recently completed her sophomore year at East Chapel Hill High School. This fall she will be attending the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics. In addition to writing poetry, she enjoys competitive sailing, playing soccer and alto saxophone in a school jazz band as well as running and cooking. Her winning poem is aptly called “American Dream”.
“I wanted to write a poem that embraced all parts of the ‘American Dream,’ good and bad,” she said in a news release. “To me the ‘American Dream’ is the glue that holds our very diverse country together, a stereotype of what it means to be American. All of us go about achieving this ideal in different ways, some taking it for granted, others hopeful, all at times frustrated and discouraged. But, with all its imperfections, at least some part of all of us still believes that the dream is real. And I think that is what sets Americans apart.”
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