With interest and enthusiasm, I've been following a blog conversation that I first discovered through Josh Corey's Cahiers about broadening the audience for poetry by working with schoolchildren. I work for the education organization, Writers in the Schools (WITS).
Each year
WITS celebrates National Poetry Month (April) with A Poem A Day,
an outreach project that promotes poetry to the people. WITS
selects a poem by our student writers to represent each day of the
month and shares
that poem through emails and by
displaying the poems in local Houston businesses. To sign up, send an email to mail@writersintheschools.org.
WITS will email you a new poem
each weekday in April.
Here's a sneak preview:
Two minutes
Me and my boys
Two minutes
in the hood
Two minutes
seen the haters
Two minutes
seen the colors of the rags
Two minutes
heard the buck shots
Two minutes
ran like fireants
Two minutes
My boys buck back
Two minutes
Lil Frank was gone
Frank, age 12, Juvenile Probation
