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, January 26, 2012

Grace - NOLA Myths

Camp friend: “So do you guys pay to get into Mardi Grass?”
Me: “No it’s free.”
Camp friend: “Well I don’t get it, so there are drunken men riding around on trucks?”
Me: “Exactly how I would describe it” (sarcasm).
Drunken men, blaring tunes,
Packed crowds and uncontrolled chaos
Phrases that depict the indescribable atmosphere through the words of…
Outsiders or so called foreigners,
All bewildered, puzzled by the thoughts of “Mardi Grass.”
Myths can only create the reaction of a New Orleanian: uncontainablelaughter.

Grace, age 16
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