num_pages: 528
description: The Poetry Center is proud to publish this second volume of good new from Chicago's schools. More than 2,300 students improved their creative literacy through the weekly instruction of their poet-in-residence, an approximately 14,000 students benefited from school-wide projects. If you have ever wondered what is going on in the hearts and minds of Chicago's youth, this book provides wonderful clues. The poems show the landscape and reality of being a young person in Chicago. In this book are poems expressing strong opinions about the war in Iraq, and some that describe neighborhoods in the grip of the underground economy of drugs and prostitution. There are poems that are quite obviously first poetic words. And, there are many poems - some by students as young as eight - that are glorious lyric moments, the stuff of which great poetry is made.
language: English
title: Hands on Stanzas, 2002-2003, Anthology of Poetry
titlecomplete: Hands on Stanzas, 2002-2003, Anthology of Poetry
ratings_count: 4
publisher: The Poetry Center of Chicago