W.o.o.t.s.

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. [...]

Lil Gigglez by Kenia Basagoytia from LISTOS Published in the 2006-2007 WITS Anthology Mostly What I’m Made Of My name is Kenia Quesia Basagoytia. I am 15 years old. I turn 16 December 10th 2007. I am a teen mother. My son’s name is Gabriell Levi Alexander Hernandez. He turned a year old March 14th [...]

There I lie By Taylor W. From the WITS Program at Alliance High School There I lie in the tree, on the limb the limb of time. I praise the trees that touch the sky. The sky that is a deep blue with white thin clouds stretching out across the great expanse. I praise the [...]

The Drawing by Adriana Rojas-Echenique from Grant High School Published in the 2007-2008 WITS Anthology I Once Was Young and Strong I draw two people face to face. Contour lines almost touching, stories intertwined into the shape of her mouth his eyes. Two lines all I know of the secret written there.