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, October 19, 2011

Ruthie - I Will Defend

I will defend
you and your
weird purple hair
and old book smell.
Your taste for po-boys,
the way you jump from one
holiday to the next, because you
know the best way to move on is to
party on, cause that's how we live so
I will defend your face paint and loud music,
your ostentatious jewelry and the sweat that 
drips from your chin. I will defend the way you 
shake the dome every Sunday, priests speeding
up mass just to get to the game. I will defend, I will
listen to your streetcar groans and count your oak trees
as I pass, turning yellow in the summer sun, I will defend.

Ruthie, age 16
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