Union Gap 8th graders now published poets

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UNION GAP, Wash. -- Ten students in Union Gap are now published poets. The eighth graders submitted poems they wrote in class.

The ten winners will be published in the nationally-distributed book A Celebration of Poets.
 
Student's say they're excited and honored to be published.
 
"I like to read a lot and when I write I just like getting out ideas and possibly writing something that I would like to have read," said Samantha Gordon, a published poet. "When I'm reading poems I just like the words to flow together."
 
Some of the poems were written about veteran's day. Others were about various subjects of interest to the students.