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The Chief Sealth International Poetry Club is lead by Senior, Slwan Logman and Junior, Hamda Yusuf. This club started with a mere three people but quickly grew to around 15. Their continued deternmination and overall poetic versatility has made this one of Chief Sealth's most successful clubs.
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Hamda Yusuf- I'm a Junior at CSI and I loved to read poetry before I ever tried writing it. It wasn't until my freshman year when I genuinely tried to write a poem, I haven't stopped since.Slwan Logman- I'm a Senior at CSI and I truly believe that poetry is a universal language. A good poet is one that puts their listeners through an emotional journey.Fatuma Mohamed- I'm a Sophomore at CSI and poetry is the essence of life. Never let is escape you.Duwasha McCraney- I'm a senior at CSI and I write poetry when I'm happy, angry, sad, or any emotion really. I can always turn to poetry to help me through a difficult time.Nhi Nguyen- I'm a Senior at CSI and poetry to me is words that once put together, translate my feelings visually. It is my faculties. I breath it.Abdi Mohamed- I'm a senior at CSI and poetry helps me feel closer to my Somali culture. We aren't called the Nation of Poets for nothing.
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Just Another Towelhead by Hamda YusufHi. You probably didn’t know this at the time but my name is Hamda Yusuf. Actually…Scratch that.My name is Hamda Ahmed Yusuf Abdale Mohamed Hussein Mohamed Mohamoud.And before you even say anything, stop.Because I already know that my name probably puts up more flags in an airport than a Mexican driving in Arizona.Know that the deep piercing stares are directed at my hijabAnd not my infectious smile.Know that I’m already judged not for who I am but for what I wear and just for the recordIt isn’'t a towel.But somewhere in all of that self-pity I realized that it really shouldn’t matter how you perceive me to be.It should only matter how I perceive myself to be.And well I KNOW that I’m Hamda Yusuf, poet.I’'m Hamda Yusuf and my kind of a Friday night is a Star Trek: The Next Generation marathon.I’'m Hamda Yusuf and I'’ve seen the Lion King 17 times and I'’ve cried every time Mufasa died.I’'m Hamda Yusuf and Albus Dumbledore is my hero.I’'m Hamda Yusuf and I'm a mustache enthusiast.I’'m Hamda Yusuf and apparently I scare Juan Williams at airports.I’'m Hamda Yusuf and I’m Muslim. Not Moslem or Islams. But Muslim. It’'s really not that hard to say.I'’m Hamda Yusuf and I’'m sick and tired of hearing about countries banning the burqa to protect women’s rights when they’'re really just taking away our right to choose.And since when has it become okay to take off the layers but illegal to try and put them back on.Is it me or is the world going insane.Threats of burning Qur’ans and protests against building mosques as if we had done something wrong.Besides fight for our American Dream, and you- knower of nothing you, every Muslim is a terrorist and every terrorist is Muslim you, I get all my facts from conservapedia you, have the audacity to tell me there’s no such things as Islamophobia in the world?Well I’'m sorry because I’'ve been sent on a mission to talk to every single person who has ever called me a towelhead and unfortunately for both of us you’'re on my list.So how about you take a seat on my couch and take a sip of my mother’s tea and I'’ll explain to you as politely as can be how my father has told me more times than I can count on my fingers that I can be whatever I want to be. I can be that lawyer, be that doctor, be that engineer. But I will never ever ever be, just another towelhead.
Just Another Towelhead- Hamda Yusuf
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February 28 2011 3:00pm club meeting _ Chief Sealth International HS March 7 2011 3:00pm club meeting _ Chief Sealth International HS March 14 2011 3:00pm club meeting _ Chief Sealth International HS March 17, 2011 3:00pm open mic _ Chief Sealth International HS (auditorium)
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