This is what we are all about! We are so very happy to share with you some of the best student writing from workshops, field trips, and tutoring sessions at 826 centers across the country. We also accept submissions by any students age 6-18. All writing can be emailed to submissions [at] 826national.org for consideration. Read on and enjoy!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, we've put together a collection of some of the best 826 poetry from across the country. These students' work will capture your imagination, whether they're vivdly addressing their feelings through natural imagery, or describing a flooded world in which we all have to grow gills to survive.
My Emotions
Yasmin Jones, 826DC
Floating in polluted
Water like leaves
In the Rain.
Blood dripping from
The sky in the evening
When the sun is fainting.
Read the entire piece >>
The Water
Spencer W. Blake, 826 CHI
it wouldn’t stop raining.
the people evolved.
grew gills.
adaptation.
walking had been replaced with breaststrokes.
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Deus Ex Machina
Isabel Canning, 826 Seattle
I hear the scratching of trees against trees, a hollowed-out branch locked in never-ending war wit chalk-white fibers covered in slivers of blue and red.
I see the darkness creeping into the pulsating red organ that resides in a hallow cage with walls of flesh and bars of bone.
I know the secrets whispered in a hollowed tube that forever siphons sound to the lump of neurons that looks and smells of blue cheese but controls every move.
I am a machine programmed to think and act uniquely toward other machines, all
controlled by the quivering organ lodged in our heads, which is kept alive, in turn, by the organ in the chest of bones, muscles, and skin.
I am a human being.
Read the entire piece >>
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