European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Poet Amy Martin Center holds court at the poetry club at school As two of her friends Alexis Sears left Amy Margalis react with enthusiasm. Material things there s ,1 rial Yuppie be Elm among teen agers frown i wish they could give themselves room to Experiment even in what they want to try i n t considered Success in the conventional sense. It s a lot of work to find out what makes you Happy. Some people just Settle Lor the eat est thing the Money or the material things i Don t think anyone should sterile. I be tried not when she was born this is going to sound crazy but Amy looked older. She never really looked like a baby says Regina Martin just Home from a Rainy Day of teaching English sitting at the dining loom table. Amy flits about momentarily lighting on the phone in the bedroom the yellow cake in the Kitchen the Mirror in the bathroom. She was t the sort of toddler who wandered around getting into things says her Mother she did t Wake up cry. She woke up told herself stories. She was she also was hard to argue with. She would reason with you. She had a composure a self Possession that would make me forget the age of the person i was dealing with. I had to remember she s the daughter. I m the Mother a visitor has to remember Loo. Martin has the same Blue eyes intensity As her daughter whose poems sometimes scare her. They seem so much older so Martin named her daughter alter a character in utile women the Younge to daughter who go her Way a says Amy. She was wilful i am too.". R her Morv a Iii Foht i or to re id at 4 ,.nd it j. Sin Lynn or i re " Aba ii the a. R this which a b a ii by la l v.". I Grade. Sue in a d a a ii h a work Buuri. , Book the firm books appeared when she a 4 would Vicinte stones to her Mother about a seed that grew up to be a lower about a log that dreamed of a Iti illion cans of dog food i think i wrote because it made me feel the Rosl grown up. 11 was a constant struggle Belv Oen the Chi id in me the adult " at g. She wrote who Arn i sometimes i wonder who am p i wonder in i am a dream. I think i know who i Arn myself she seemed to know throughout Grade school writing in her journal practising the piano starring in musicals at net tiny zip Scopal it Tate school but years later alter Hor parents divorce the move to a new apartment a new school. Amy was t sure for a time. At Stuyvesant i was so she says. I had had the same friends since Nursery school suddenly i did t know one single person. I had been so sheltered there were no Punk people at my old school. At Stuyvesant. The seniors looked about 25. There were kids with mohawks. I was one Day. Amy came Home with the Backol her head shaved one Side of her hair bleached White a look she completed with Black makeup rhinestone jewelry. Her hair looked she says sternly like it had been caught in a helicopter propeller " Amy also slopped writing she credits her poetry teacher. Judith Kocela. Wilh giving her the Confidence to rest Ime. I reaped she a special she read her lust poem says. She never wrote a ,kw3rd. Adolescent poetry from the beginning to p Powe us Hono Trul in Rorri t to in age poor a i by ,. Am a j Fly for of Kjol a in i to it i . Al a s i Rno Iliff Utt inc to l. O willing to be Aulne Ravlic to the world " such vulnerability m often Licking Al slut pc known for math science Whiz kids not Poel i i -v.1 year. Kocela recalls some students performed in original song for a school show. The lyrics voc something like you gel the Best grades to get to Ivy t eat Jues to get to the pm to be Rich Nch. Nch i ,11 was the chorus Rich Rich Rich i remember be i Iii the Leacher beside m -. I m going to be sick sick cd " buoyed by Vuceta s encouragement Amy Violie i a poem that won an honorable mention in a City wide contest sponsored by City College of new York shr also won a Slot in the new York City writing project month Long summer workshop at Lehman College in he Bronx thai was my first attempt at showing something big by showing its smallest parts my favorite thing to do is to go to Amy s House listen to her play the piano read her poetry then Cook dinner together us Melissa Clark also i 7, says Amy is different from her other friends in the she looks Al Lite her Majni to a tie handles things Ine was troubled by her Lainer Lor i Une it Drew her a by from Hie group Bui la n a 1 of via cd the i 1 Anu Chin wrong Wilh a i h cember25, 1cs5 the Star i a id to t i
