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Hidden Talent [1]

Creative Nonfiction [2]
2.16.17

Poet, jazz musician, woodcarver, multimedia artist, painter. A variety of hidden talents [3] may in fact lie behind the familiar faces of an apartment building porter, doorman, handyman, or other neighborhood figure. Write an essay about a time when you learned about someone’s secret skill or hidden talent. What are the assumptions that accumulate when you only encounter someone in a professional or public capacity? What might be inspiring or exciting about the idea that anyone—perhaps even everyone—may have a hidden talent? 


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/hidden_talent [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/realestate/does-your-doorman-have-a-hidden-talent.html