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Congrats to all the students who read their work at BiPartisan cafe last Thursday night! The space was packed to standing-room-only with friends, parents, siblings, teachers, WITS writers, and the students courageous enough to share their writing. We’re looking forward to receiving submissions for the WITS anthology!

Despite being interrupted by a fire alarm and having to evacuate the museum into the park blocks, Lincoln students and their fans (including parents, siblings, teachers, and friends) had a great end-of-residency reading. At the end, the Lincoln teachers presented WITS writer Laura Moulton with a book of found poems they had made with their [...]

Thirty students from all the PPS high schools rocked the Mission Theater during the first city-wide slam poetry competition, Verselandia! Three students from each school (who had won their school’s playoffs) had three minutes each to perform an original poem. Names were drawn at random from a fishbowl and a panel of five judges held [...]

Parents, friends, teachers and writers packed into Annie Bloom’s Books to see Wilson students read  poetry, prose, and drama written during the previous semester with a WITS writer-in-residence. The classes hosting a writer included Creative Writing, 3D Design, and US History. WITS writer Cindy Williams Gutierrez spoke of creating art from books and writing poems [...]

We’ve just made all of our digital chapbooks–past and present–available online through Issuu.com, an online reader. These are tons more fun to read than ordinary PDFs (they actually look and feel like books!), so please check them out! To view our library, you can visit our profile at http://www.issuu.com/literary-arts.

My Story by Robel Haile I wanna tell you a story Of myself I’m a person who is hungry Hungry with a big dream Dream like the American dream “The African Dream” Peace, peace, and peace My dreams are heading back to home Heading back to the East To the origin of Lucy and Selam [...]

Back in ‘Nam by Thomas B. Darkness The orange I Wear Shows no color. I don’t know if He is Alive or Dead Out of state or In. But what I do know is that I can’t Eat or Sleep. I can’t Speak right When he’s not Around. Tasteless The words I speak Leave me [...]

Photorealism by Ruth Campbell from Grant High School Published in the 2007-2008 WITS Anthology I Once Was Young and Strong I found the picture in a magazine: light poured into a silent hallway from the many open, dusty doors interrupting the shadows on the doors across the hall. As I carefully drew each shadow the [...]

Perspective on Others by Martin Rich from Metropolitan Learning Center Published in the 2007-2008 WITS Anthology I Once Was Young and Strong Walking up to the corner of Ainsworth and MLK Avenue shows so many choices. Walgreens pharmacy, Safeway grocery, Starbucks coffee, and my favorite Popeye’s Cajun chicken and biscuits. One night I was in [...]

Who I Am by Shoua Xiong from Lincoln High School Published in the 2007-2008 WITS Anthology I Once Was Young and Strong Who am I? I’ll try my best to tell you I am young and intelligent. I have my own talents and my own language. I am different. No two people are the same. [...]