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, March 19, 2012

Darby - NOLA Greetings

Walk in, anywhere,
and “Hey y’all!”
can be heard.
Someone screams
at the top of their lungs,
in order to make it sincere.
It already was though. 
Greetings
say a lot about someone,
and in New Orleans,
the place we call home,
they are a part of life.
They say kindness,
happiness.
They’re for people we know,
and those we don’t,
everyone. 
If you aren’t from here,
we’re crazy until you begin to understand:
it doesn’t matter who you are,
we’ll do it no matter what.


Darby, age 17