Paint Me Like I Am

Zusatztext "You don't really have to love poetry to find appeal in these talented voices." Klappentext Today my name is colorful. Yesterday my name was dead souls. Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits. My friends think my name is fire. The police think my name is burden. My parents think my name is symphony. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be. Paint Me Like I Am is a collection of poems by teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps. To read the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere. Included are a foreward by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, an essay from Kevin Powell, another poet associated with WritersCorps, and writing tips from WritersCorps instructors. WritersCorps was started in 1994 to help at-risk youth in three American urban centers: San Francisco, Washington, DC, and New York City (the Bronx). Thousands of children and teenagers have since benefited from finding creative expression through writing. Zusammenfassung Today my name is colorful. Yesterday my name was dead souls. Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits. My friends think my name is fire. The police think my name is burden. My parents think my name is symphony. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be. Paint Me Like I Am is a collection of poems by teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps. To read the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere. Included are a foreward by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni! an essay from Kevin Powell! another poet associated with WritersCorps! and writing tips from WritersCorps instructors. WritersCorps was started in 1994 to help at-risk youth in three American urban centers: San Francisco! Washington! DC! and New York City (the Bronx). Thousands of children and teenagers have since benefited from finding creative expression through writing. ...

Product details

• Authors: Bill Aguado, Richard Newirth, Aguado Bill
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2008
• Subject: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books
• EAN: 9780064472647
• ISBN: 978-0-06-447264-7
• Pages: 144
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 99
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