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Emma Broder

Emma Broder is sixteen years old and lives in New Haven, Connecticut. She is a senior at Hamden High School and the Educational Center for the Arts.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Fall 2010

Nkoaranga

By Emma Broder

Runner-up 2010 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers July bears me up onto plains, onto pounded, dusty roads, where banana plants hunch with ripeness. On the way to market […]

Past Recipients of the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers

Nkoaranga

By Emma Broder

2010 Runner Up July bears me up onto plains, onto pounded, dusty roads, where banana plants hunch with ripeness. On the way to market in Arusha, I feel the rhythms […]