![Anna Yang is a twelfth grader at Notre Dame High School in San Jose and is the 2022-2023 Santa Clara Youth Poet Laureate. Anna’s writing has been published in The New York Times and KQED. Anna spoke with Harker Aquila about her experiences in poetry, and how it relates to her identity and past.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_0175-900x600.jpg)
The Poet’s Project: ‘Depths of my mind’
by Felix Chen and Aishani Singh
• March 16, 2023
![Ellen Bass is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently, “Indigo,” published in 2020. Bass spoke with Harker Aquila about her experiences reading, writing, and teaching poetry, making a home and a life out of this art.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/The-1st-Series-1.jpg)
The Poet’s Project: ‘The magic and mystery of it’
by Felix Chen and Sarah Mohammed
• January 24, 2023
![Estelle Cimino, who visited the upper school campus with the Beat Museum on Wheels, reads a poem from Beat Generation author Ruth Weiss at their speaker event on Feb. 24. The BeatMobile came to the campus for the day to educate about the Beat Generation authors of the 1950s.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_0042-e1646414610842-900x597.jpg)
Beat Museum on Wheels teaches about Beat Generation at upper school visit
by Sally Zhu, A&E and Lifestyle Editor
• March 4, 2022
![The audiobook edition of “Chain of Gold” by Cassandra Clare borrowed from Sora stands next to the hardcover edition. This novel was the first audiobook I ever listened to, and it introduced me to a new form of consuming media that I had previously shunned due to misconceptions.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/12.13.21Audiobooks_IreneYuan_8550-2-900x600.jpg)
Reading audiobooks isn’t cheating
by Irene Yuan, Co-Managing Editor
• December 14, 2021
![Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/music-1-900x675.png)
Music Monday: Dive into literary worlds with Aquila
by Irene Yuan, Multimedia Editor
• May 3, 2021
![Adding one poster or one text to a literary canon is not inclusion, but tokenism. Pairing them with the historical background of the experiences they write about will open up discussions about ethnic cultures. Making ethnic studies more mainstream is not a radical act of indoctrination, but an effort to include the history and perspectives of more identities.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Updated_OpinionIllustration1-900x528.png)
Expanding ethnic studies in curriculum as required classes
by Nicole Tian, Opinion Editor
• October 1, 2020
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