One more from CEEAS -- Words Unlocked Poetry Winner Featured on NPR
Please bear with me here. I realize that CEEAS is primarily focused on serving incarcerated juvenile students, but we can all learn from, and be thrilled by, the extraordinarily innovative work they are doing.
The announcement below comes from CEEAS's website:
Aaron Martin, winner of this year’s Words Unlocked Poetry competition, and his teacher, Kim DeForest, were featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Aaron’s winning poem, Meth, offers a harrowing, personal account of fighting off the temptation of Crystal Meth. In the interview with Rachel Martin, Aaron talks openly about the drug “tearing apart your life and taking everything away from you.” Aaron, an aspiring songwriter, said he plans to use the techniques he learned during Words Unlocked as he continues to refine and improve his lyrics, words delivered much like spoken word poetry. Click here to listen.