Armstrong senior is a national spoken word champion for poem about Minnesota winter
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. -- A Golden Valley teenager is a national champion - because of the powerful way she chooses her words.
Armstrong High School senior Stella Wright put together a poem about surviving Minnesota's longest season.
"It talks about how winter can be really hard, but how it can be beautiful. But how there's also many other seasons of life, and that you have to step back and look at your whole life as a mosaic, as a picture, not just one season," Wright said.
Wright has a busy schedule. She's a standout student and Spanish translator at Hennepin County Medical Center. She was a 2023 National Finalist as well as winner of the Poetry Ourselves spoken word competition in Washington D.C.
"I can't believe, like, it was crazy because I don't know how they judged it, it was really amazing because they were all so talented. So to have that validation that they liked my poem was really special and I'll forever be grateful," she said. "I like to think of it as my heart overflowing with gratefulness and being super thankful for anyone who understands my poems or connects with them because they mean a lot to me – and the fact that they can mean something to someone else, it's the cherry on top."
Wright graduates in two weeks. She will head to the University of San Diego to major in biology and plans to become a doctor.
She says she also plans to continue performing spoken word poetry.