Poetry. Prose. WHAT IT TOOK FOR TO ME TO GET HERE is an anthology of poetry and prose written by young people who participated in the San Francisco WritersCorps 1998-1999 program. It is edited by the San Francisco WritersCorps, with an introduction by Dorothy Allison and photographs by Rick Rocamora. WritersCorps has provided these young people with the care and consideration it takes to foster a love for story and a value in one's own worth. As a result, they have created a vivid version of the life. Now, anyone can come along. Anyone can understand. The writings in WHAT IT TOOK FOR ME TO GET HERE are beginnings, road maps to the future-- Dorothy Allison. San Francisco WritersCorps is a city community service that transforms individuals and communities through the written word. This is its fifth anthology.