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Poet-Trees Encourage Anyone to Channel Their Inner Bard

Posted on · (Above: Poetry and messages attached to a tree as part of the Poet-Trees project from Writers in the Schools. Photo Courtesy: WITS) Last April, during National Poetry Month, Writers in the Schools (WITS) began a new project around Buffalo Bayou called the Poet-Trees, where people could write poems or messages and attach them to trees […]

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Up Close With Houston’s First-Ever Youth Poet Laureate

Posted on · For the past two and a half weeks, Andrew White has had a secret. That's because the senior at The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts was chosen to be Houston's first-ever youth poet laureate – but he wasn't allowed to tell anyone until the news was announced last week (Nov. 12, 2015) […]