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Student Poetry Project

Student Poetry Project

April is National Poetry Month, a time when we celebrate poetry and recognize how it has shaped American culture. This year, KUT is participating in National Poetry Month by sharing poems written by students in the Blank Page creative writing programs at Kealing and Fulmore Middle Schools and the Writers' Workshop at Rawson Saunders School. You can read the and listen to the poems here, and you can also listen to the poems read on KUT 90.5 FM throughout the month of April.

  • I yell to the kingsOn behalf of the people who lost their lightPlease, don't clip our wings!Please cut away our stringsDon't shade us from the light!I…
  • I feel the cool mist against my faceThe ocean speaks to meThe beach, my peaceful placeA blank spaceTo be freeAs I feel the cool mist against my faceLike…
  • Ingredients:Dash of nutmeg,Clip of unicorn hair,An inch of slimy toad skin (the best you can find)Squirt of pickle juice,Sprinkle of ghost pepper,Packet…
  • Her eyes are chocolaty hazelnut brownHer fur a mixed brown with blackBut it’s not her looks;What’s got us is how she acts!A knock on the doorShe growls…
  • It is twelve o’ clock -Cinderella’s time.She has to go.It’s of the hour, again.Little Red Riding Hoodmeets the wolfat four o’ clock.It’s of the hour,…
  • Writing isn’t my “thing” -Never has been, never will be.My writing has never been chosen,Never been read.My writing is okay,Just not goodAnd certainly not…
  • I laugh at the face,that makes me feel sad,saying, “It’s nothing,I don’t feel bad.”But really,I let my feelings sink down inside,Is there anythingI don’t…
  • Snuggled up in bedShe's sitting right next to me,Her smile contagious.She kisses me on the forehead,"Goodnight.""But what about Old Aunt Addy?"I give her…
  • Through shallow abundance you waste happilyPatchy spritzers flowing leaving lawns soakedAmerica, douses in apathyWhile we wither, in charred earth, lying…
  • My most heroic supporterIs my braA large womanBlack and dressed in laceAnd bowsShe is gentleBut will hurt me with her wiry sassIf disrespectedShe is by my…