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

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Maura - NOLA Myths

“IM SWASTED IN DA 504”

Oh, how we love tourists

Tourists come, tourists go

Our drunken stereotype always stays, it never goes

It’s a part of us, mostly true, but mostly false

Sure New Orleans has some drinks, but we know how to keep it in

Tourist don’t

They think they can hang, but how wrong they are.

We are not the drunken swamp people as many may think

We have much more to offer then drive through daiquiris and Bourbon street

We are just New Orleanians

We cannot be defined

That’s just a simple fact

Maura, age 16


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