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, February 28, 2012

Ashley - Down in New Orleans...

Down in New Orleans…
Begging strangers in masks to throw plastic beads at your face
Diving to the ground for doubloons
Covering your neck in purple, green and gold beads
Giving kids decorated spears
Praising strangers dressed as kings and queens
Wearing tacky clothes
Eating your weight in fried chicken from Popeye’s
Celebrating when you get the baby in a piece of cake
Dancing with strangers to the beat of the drums
is the norm.
It is Mardi Gras Madness, what else do you expect?

Ashley, age 16
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