Pharr poet gives back to at-risk youth through poetry and guidance

Pharr poet gives back to at-risk youth through poetry and guidance

Amanda Puryear El, an author and poet born and raised in Pharr, is not ashamed of her troubled youth. Now, she uses poetry to motivate, inspire and guide at-risk students at the same alternative high school she attended, hoping to make a difference and lead youth down the right path. Dubbed the poetry whisperer by the students at Buell Central High School, PSJA’s Alternative Education Program for 6-12 students assigned there through a disciplina…