YORK COLLEGE–Camryn Bruno, a York College Sophomore, was named 2019’s New York City Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) on Nov. 5.
Bruno, who is majoring in communications technology, read her poem titled “Politics Bite” during the competition. The poem compares politics to animals and insects that bite and urges others to go out and vote if they can because if they don’t then the policies implemented when they didn’t vote will come back to “bite” them.