This week, 2008 OSI Community Fellow Patrice Hutton was on WYPR’s Humanities Connection to introduce a new initiative for her program, Writers In Baltimore Schools, which provides in-school, after-school and summer creative writing workshops to Baltimore City middle and high school students.
With “Neighborhoods, News: A Poetic Archiving of Baltimore,” 16 WBS students will have an opportunity to explore their neighborhoods via the Baltimore Sun’s news archive and write poetry around the history they discover. They’ll then lead poetry workshops within their neighborhoods and encourage other community members to contribute their own archival texts. Hutton hopes that this program will give the young writers experience as teachers and ultimately return to the program as educators themselves.
