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Vanessa Lamar Barton
Vanessa Barton currently is working at the american legion post 197 as a bar waitress and as a Sales and Loan Assistant at EZ pawn in Jacksonville. She has held two jobs for the past seventeen year...view moreVanessa Barton currently is working at the american legion post 197 as a bar waitress and as a Sales and Loan Assistant at EZ pawn in Jacksonville. She has held two jobs for the past seventeen years to raise her two sons, Joseph Bostick Jr. and Roberto Barragan IV, whom also reside in Jacksonville, Florida.
Vanessa's fondest memory involves moving from Mt. Pleasant, Texas to Florida and seeing orange groves for the first time. Vanessa is a graduate of Sea breeze Sr. high school in Ormond Beach, Florida; and has completed two years of college at DBCC in Daytona Beach. Vanessa has always been interested in poetry and went on to write poems in the local newspaper called the Daytona Times.
Upon entering Jacksonville, Vanessa has continuing her love by publishing poems for the Florida Star, a local news paper in Jacksonville. Vanessa entered a poetry contest through poetry.com, becoming the winner of the Editors’ choice award for her poem: The Game of Life; which will be published in Forever Spoken scheduled to be published in April 2007. Vanessa's favorite poet is Maya Angelou and her favorite poem is: Still I Rise.view less