Great Poetry by Students in Baltimore

Black Words Matter.

Writers in Baltimore Schools is a non-profit organization that -- if these poems are any indication-- is doing important and powerfully beautiful work. (Photo from their Facebook page.)

Here's the first stanza of one of the poems published in the article.

I feel most colored when
by Jaida Griffin (grade 11)

I feel most colored when the pen bursts. When spurts of pigment mark my palms I see that brown and blue is not a combination so common as black and blue.