LENA GINAWI, LEFT, and Kiran Waqar, juniors at South Burlington High School, open last Friday night’s Kids 4 Peace fundraiser in Middlebury with slam poetry. The two make up half of the award-winning poetry group “Muslim Girls Making Change.” Independent photo/Emma Cotton
MIDDLEBURY— “There’s a war going on. A war that has caused the colors of life to leave the bodies of those whose names you ascribe to fear. I will never forget how much death loves these people.”
Lena Ginawi, a slam poet and junior at South Burlington High School, stood in front of about 20 Middlebury residents last Friday in an apartment in the Marble Works Condos and recited those words.
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