Summary: Like thousands of other local students, Maga Barzallo Sockemtickem has had the benefit of working with a professional writer in the classroom through Writers in the Schools , a program from Seattle Arts and Lectures . But for Barzallo Sockemtickem, now 17, that "classroom" happened to be her room at Seattle Children's Hospital . She has spent many months at Children's, being treated for cancer and working with WITS poet Sierra Nelson . Barzallo Sockemtickem's poem "Where I'm From" is defiant and
