How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Matty - As the streetcar persistently creaks...

As the street car persistently creaks in the distance, I lay at the car
stop, back pack under head, book held loosely in my and all the while
the starts have blanketed the South.

        Easy to wait, waiting for fate? For a ride, for a light, for a
night? For things that rhyme?

       Cement that crunches beneath me under my shoes, but above the
sweet grass.

       Tall am I against the traffic, but puny compared to the electric
bus that is rolling on.


Matty, age 16
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