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, February 29, 2012

Torre - Mardi Gras

Is it weird-
The joy that comes with screaming for valueless coins andplastic beads
The excitement of running down St. Charles littered withplastic cups
While strangers from every end of the country
Come in their obvious tourist attire
To profess their love for the Big Easy and even you
To a New Orleanian, this is nothing out of the norm
As we have found a time
Year after year
To make sure the good times keep on rolling
Through ignorance
Through trials of injustice and crime
Through it all
We have found a reason to celebrate
Laissez les bons temps roulez

Torre, age 17
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