Staring With Hope By Nusiba (6th grade) Staring up at the sky With hope Wanting a sign Waiting for a drop of water Not knowing what’s about to come Maybe a breeze Or a storm, or just the sun Maybe just the same as yesterday The gloom of the day Bringing you down So you…
By Kim Stafford Once upon a time, at an education conference far away, on the shuttle from the airport, a teacher from the Air Force Academy was telling me about his new computer program to help student writers. “It’s modeled on the flight simulator,” he said, “where you’re strapped in for virtual flight, and when…
By Peter Markus What I like about the moon is that the moon that we see in Detroit is the same moon that is seen in Sudan, Paris, Itza, Sienna, Queens. It’s true that sometimes the moon might be blocked by clouds, by trees, by fog, by a forgetfulness to look up, but when we…
T&W writers’ in-class writing prompts and exercises inspired and generated the adapted poem found in A Poem as Big as New York City. From this imaginative, diverse, massive, and multi-faceted material, an adapted work emerged. Here’s a peek at one of the lessons that served as the raw clay to shape young writers’ minds. All lessons…
by Mary Ann Caws The beginning of the 20th century witnessed what Mary Ann Caws has called “The Manifesto Moment” —a ten-year period of “glorious madness” in which nearly every -ism that we identify with Modernism proclaimed its existence. These manifestos were written predominantly by young writers and artists; one might even say that the…