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

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Anonymous - Winter in NOLA


Christmas in New Orleans

Burning cold and wetness.
Some might ask how this might be.
Something so cold that it burns?
Something that should be dry is wet?

Christmas in the Oaks, warm gumbo,
and wreaths on every streetcar.

Some might be asking where and what this is.
Decorations on the “Wedding Cake House”,
                                          fake snow in damp yards,
girls in white dresses with their moms
                                       waiting for Teddy Bear Tea.
You are asking where might this happen.
Its here, in New Orleans, where else would it be?

Anonymous, age 14
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