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, April 30, 2012

Darby - Home

My Home
Makeshift tap shoes
constructed from tops of cans,
dance to sounds of a city,
trying to gain a dollar or two.
Saxophones, trumpets, guitars
fill the air,
are carried from street to street
by the wind that comes off the
river.
This is music,
as we’ve grown up
surrounded by tunes
composed on street corners,
by names that will never be recognized
as anything more than “just another” street
performer.
This is New Orleans,
a sinking city
with music that lifts up spirits,
which have been brought down over the years.
This is home.

Darby, age 16
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