Amber Stallworth is a fourth-year music industry and communications student at Northeastern University. She is from Philadelphia, PA where she hails from one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. However, as a low-income black girl she's been able to take advantage of prestigious education her entire life which is where her passion for writing stems from. This passion led her to take up a writing minor. Besides writing, her passions include woodworking, music, and hanging out with friends. Her future writing goals include being a songwriter as well as writing a book. These poems are from her recent study in Rome and the Rome-inspired anthology written there.