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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.

  • Read by Rebecca McInroyI rememberWhen I was two and I waddled aroundand you ran me over and knocked me downAnd you slept in my room and devoured all my…
  • Read by Laurie ViaultThe seasonings are tested and pushed back far into the cabinetnever to be used again.An opened bag of marshmallows grow…
  • Read by Shawna ButlerShapesEach one uniqueCombining into words to hurt or helpAble to create or destroy,Inspire love or hate.Hidden within each…
  • Read by Da'Shade MoonbeamYou could say they are kind of sillydressed up in cosplaylike Superman, Wonder Woman or Miku Natsune, lights flashing…
  • Read by Spike Gillespieas good as it can seeas fast as it can moveas quick as it can thinkas beautiful as it can be -the categories of humanwe judge them…
  • Read by Ebony StewartYou can reach for the starsBut you’re lacking in a couple miles.You can strive to be first on MarsBut your youth barricades the path…
  • Read by Jodi EgertonPoetry readiesIts backpack for the long journey aheadIt contains only the essentials;childhood memories, doozies and daydreamsPoetry…
  • Ode
    Read by Rabbi Neil BlumofeYellow pencil,so shiny and narrow,taste of wood,without you, I’ll be doomed—You help me writeall the things I have in…
  • Read by Shawna ButlerThe day I threw my name into a pondI lived.I became one instead of two -Right and wrong combinedMy true self emergedbowties,…
  • Read by Spike GillespieI don’t believe in luckand I don’t believe in fairy tales.Prince Charming’s just some dudeand love is just a word.But bottled up…