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

Monday, October 17, 2011

Megann - I Will Defend...

I will defend my city, 
the lights on the lake, the beads in the trees,
the shoes on the power lines
I will defend

I will defend the crumbling tombstones,
the rusted gates, the swaying oaks,
the blood in the street, 
I will defend 

I will defend the cobblestone streets, 
the plastic cups of Bourbon, the broken signs,
the waterlines,
I will defend

I will defend the cracks of the Causeway,
the brown, brown river, the oil-slick birds
the magnolia breeze,
I will defend

Megann, age 16
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