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

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Ruthie - Winter in NOLA

Cold welcoming the crisp
air in lungs full of water
turning my insides into frost
condensing inside of me
and lifting up
like fingers reaching up
stretching out my throat 
and pushing open my lips--
it comes out in short breaths,
clouds rolling off my tongue.

Ruthie, age 17
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