Where We Are: Poems from Lexington High School’s Class of 2017 offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of nearly 450 LHS sophomores, sharing what inspires, worries, piques and matters most to them – an authentic look at where they are right now as unique individuals. Where We Are features a foreword by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
“These gifted young poets have made works using the always-fresh, always-unique, forever-new, yet ancient instrument: the human voice…. I congratulate the writers, their teachers, and us their audience.” – excerpted from foreword by ROBERT PINSKY, former U.S. Poet Laureate and teacher in the graduate writing program at Boston University
“In bringing out Where We Are, Anthony Tedesco and the Student Publishing Program have accomplished something rare and valuable. This book and this program strike me as the most remarkable gift to student writers that anyone has offered in America." – X . J. KENNEDY, winner of the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry, the Jackson Poetry Prize, and the National Council of Teachers of English’s Award for Excellence in Children’s Poetry
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Cited by Robert-Frost-Medal-winner X.J. Kennedy as “the most remarkable gift to student writers that anyone has offered in America” and selected as one of the top 12 high school creative writing programs in the country by Web del Sol (the world’s largest nonprofit publisher of periodicals), The Student Publishing Program (SPP) is a free literary arts curriculum which brings our nation’s top poets into the classroom through on-demand mobile video to help teachers give students of all learning levels the skills and confidence needed to find and express their own creative voices beyond the classroom. SPP then publishes and promotes their compositions – one piece of poetry from every student in the grade – in an online anthology and in a print book available in bookstores nationwide, with SPP giving 100% of profits from each school’s book sales back to the school to further support English Language Arts.
For more information about The Student Publishing Program see about.StudentPublishingProgram.org
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Student Publishing Program is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.