![]() ![]() “I had a lot of fragments in my notes app. I saw the parallels so clearly that I had to pull up my notes app and immediately write down the idea.”Īfter writing fragments over time, Liu fully wrote the poem the night before the submission deadline. ![]() “And it just reminded me so much of how my mom would call me during work and stuff. “As I was getting my nails done, the person who was doing my nails was mumbling things under her breath … and then I realized she had on a Bluetooth earbud and she was probably talking to a family member,” Liu said. Liu found inspiration for their poem while getting their nails done. MacKnight Black commencement reading last Thursday.įayth Wisehart ’23 won an honorable mention for her poem, “the perils of thinking (and farming).” MacKnight Black Poetry Prize - an award given annually in a senior-only poetry contest - with their poem entitled “Ode to My Local Nail Salon,” presenting the poem at the H. What do manicures and mother-daughter relationships have in common? Shirley Liu ’23 has the answer in the form of an award-winning poem. Shirley Liu ’23 got the inspiration for ‘Ode to My Local Nail Salon’ while getting a manicure. ![]()
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