Cooper
AUSTIN — On this Friday, October 26, at 5:30 p.m., Huston-Tillotson University will name student, Earlyssa “Earl the Poet” Cooper, its poet laureate. The ceremony will take place on the patio of the University’s Downs-Jones Library.
With the backing of over 5,000 followers on her Instagram page, @theheartofearl, not counting the fans who have attended her showcases and the children and their parents who have been inspired by her impromptu poems on the back of receipts and H-E-Buddy Bucks, the poet laureate title only affirms the talent of the junior – communications major – from Houston, Texas.
“Never put down your pen,” Ms. Eunice Terry emphasized. Terry was Cooper’s fourth-grade teacher who inspired her to keep writing and speaking.
“That statement has been motivation since I left Lantern Lane Elementary School,” Cooper said. “To know this, to know a teacher planted a seed in me, I have to reach back and bring up her name often as I can, so we can understand the importance of educators and, if
