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(posted by J.)

What The Lab means to me: Life, art, becoming yourself. It was crazy. I never thought the Lab would become so big and help so many students but it did. I like being part of the Lab because the lab helps me take my writing to the next level and I thank the Lab for doing so. Poetry was way over my head. Three years ago I was writing raps, self-centered raps. The Lab made me see that raps is not the only thing I can write. I can write other stuff too and that’s when poetry came, not just poetry, R and B songs too. I started writing poetry, R and B songs, and rap songs. I was like, “what I’m good at? writing poetry. That’s crazy.” I like the fact that I could write poetry and other stuff. It made me stay in to positive things. I’ll never forget the Lab and I hope the Lab don’t forget me.

(posted by Lab mentor, David)

Hey all – It’s your resident student mentor writing to you from an office in the middle of Harding High School. I’m sitting here with one of our students on the Youth Advisory Team and we are both furiously pounding away at the keys of our computers, doing what we love best: putting words on paper…well, words on a screen, as it were… Read more

Leaders

A Youth Advisory Team Member sits with David, Guest Mentor, to learn how to set up e-mail and write for the Youth Blog on our website

A fun video of youth in The Poetry Lab.

(posted by Lab mentor, David)

As many of you know The Lab is undergoing some overhauls this year. Everyone involved is extremely excited about the direction we are moving. One of the most important results from any and all changes The Lab will go through will be greater access to student work for you. This year this will mean much more than student writing, as students get involved in film work, online writing and editing, performance, photography and other art forms, just to name a few projects in the works. Read more

Coming to the earth
being
a human being,

Living, because
you’re going to die.

Young, black, male
in America trying
to make a living

Labeled
something
you’re not.

- J –

This statement, here read by Mr. Michels, is read at the beginning of each Poetry Lab group. The mantra comes from a suggestion for teen writing circles written in a book called Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps.

Everyone in the circle is equal
No one’s voice is more important than anyone else’s
Everyone in the circle is a teacher
Everyone in the circle is a student
Everyone has his or her turn to speak within the circle
When one is speaking, all others listen
The circle is sacred and special

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