Student Writing

Teachers & Writers Collaborative programs reach thousands of young people in the New York City area every year. Our programs give students the opportunity to explore and develop their creative writing skills. At the end of most programs, Teachers & Writers publishes anthologies of student writing. We have a wonderful collection of poems and stories written by students from all over the city! Here’s a small sampling of a few poems written by students in recent Teachers & Writers programs:

My Third Eye Can See by Jasbel (6th Grade) People’s hearts getting broken. People’s feelings getting hurt. What animals do behind humans’ backs. What these animals do and say. I can read people’s minds. I can see a million miles away. I can see what’s outside of this planet. I feel with my eye. I feel the quiver that a mouse makes. I feel the only breeze in a desert. I also feel other people’s pain. My eye can see into the future the dark world the light world and where we go after life. My third eye can transfer me to  the past, present, or future. (Matthew Burgess, writer-in-residence)

The Eternal Night
by Alberys (2nd grade)

I live in the night
I hear the flap of a flying fox’s wings
I feel the shivering
In my body coming from the wind
I see porcupines
Wandering in the sands of the desert
I smell the water in a cactus
I live in the night

(Gia Winsryg-Ulmer, writer-in-residence)

Friend to Friend
by Jacqueline-Renee

Well, friend, I’ll tell you,
you’ve got to be happy!
Laugh. Sing.
Eat pizza.
Be tickled.
Color pictures.

(Nicole Callihan, writer-in-residence)