The main character is a “13 year old Negro girl”. She is a “gold star” student and was the Queen of the 6th grade. Her family travels a lot through out the book and she never really feels like she has a home. They travel from Oklahoma to Texas and all through out America becoming the First Negro do do something. Her mom enjoys being the First Negro in a town or a school because that makes history. And even though this book is titled “How I discovered poetry” poetry isn’t really a bog part of the book, at the end of the book she finds it helpful to write her feelings down. A conflict she and her family faces is segregation. Her and her family are Negros and because of that, they have to keep moving to find schools for her and her sister and jobs for her working family.