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

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Courtney - As the streetcar persistently creaks...

as the streetcar persistently creaks, i wonder who the people riding in
this machine are
rolling down St. Charles, i stare at the familiar Victorian style
houses,
but this is not what catches my eye...

it is the man sitting diagonally across from me yelling into his phone,
or the young women studiously memorizing a text book before we stop at
Loyola, or the young elementary school girl fixing her hair in the
reflection of the window...who catch my attention

all mysterious characters who i know nothing about, yet i am so close to
it is these people who make the street car rides more unique each time i
round that corner step
it is these people for who the streetcar persistently creaks

Courtney, age 16
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