A new video is spotlighting the talents of student poets from the University of Guam. KUAM takes a look at “From The Heart: Poets Of Guam, Micronesia, and South Korea". It’s self-expression rising beyond literal meaning, lines, and stanzas—UOG students from different walks of life inviting us to peer through the window of their creative voices.

As part of the Creative Writing Poetry course, original poems took center stage at UOG’s Fine Arts Auditorium for the students’ final course project. Among the featured readers was Delsha David, sharing her poem, “Dear Micronesian Daughter of America”.

“You chart the stars to navigate this American land, salt in the blood from the voyagers to your mother’s clan. Horizon seeker, dream weaver, Micronesian daughter of this space and time, journey ahead in the sanction of her great blessed divine," she recited.

Also sharing, Olivia Patterson reading her poem, Daughter of Continents, saying, “With African roots tangled beneath her hair, each strand resists forgetting. Defiant, alive, a crown spun from beauty–her hair. History stains it yet, truth defines it. Cheekbones carved from the natives that were, lips full with the very definition of black in her face.”

The course drawing a wide range of students, including a national exchange student from South Korea—someone who had never written poetry before, and never in English. Her poem is called, An Incomplete Landing. 

Ayeon Kang announced, “When I came here alone, trying to speak other languages in my own tone, I leave behind my ear, I want to throw away some fear. I’m just sitting in a chair like someone who hasn’t arrived anywhere.”

For professor David Gugin, the experience extended beyond a final assignment—saying, “This was not only their first time writing poetry, but it was also their first time reading it on stage. These students made me a better teacher, a better poet. They put themselves out there, and i am proud of them.”

 “May I say, it has been a pleasure and a privilege working with these students, these poets, in this EN311 creative writing class, fall 2025, University of Guam.”

This is the second of three planned videos.