One Year Writing in the Margins

One Year Writing in the Margins is an initiative challenging teachers/writers to spend one year facilitating creative writing workshops in at-risk communities.

[One Year Writing in the Margins @writeinmargins]

Monday - writing prompt: Students, read this quote by James Baldwin and write a response in poetry or prose. 10 minutes. Go. (Thanks, @theabhayk, for sending out this quote.) #teaching #writing #arts #education #creativewriting

[Abhay K. @theabhayk]

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people.”— James Baldwin

[One Year Writing in the Margins @writeinmargins]

Monday prompt: Have three students take turns reading this aloud. What do you think Levertov is getting at here? What image does she use to convey this? If you ended a poem with ": I can." what would you have written before those words? #writingcommunity #prompt #poetry #art

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Gently read...

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

I try to. I cathedral. In desire. In anger.

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Danez Smith in their Poet of The Week interview with us 💙

[love drops @lovedropx]

W.S. Merwin

[buy Fenestration @Othuke__Umukoro]

—e. e. cummings

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

To see if I am what it wants.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis with maybe the most important paragraph ever written for people with creative ambitions

[Freedom Reads @million_book]

Hear from one of our brothers at South Woods on how the Freedom Libraries are transforming daily life on the block. From shared discussions to quiet moments of escape, access to literature is building bridges and opening minds. #FreedomReads #prison #books #community #FollowUs

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

5/26/26 “The baby has learned the language of mirrors.”⁠

[Ten Thutty @thenotoryousone]

The last survivor from the famous A Great Day in Harlem picture 🙏🏾

[LuigiBOmalley2 @LuigiOmalley2]

Happy 85th birthday to the legendary Bob Dylan!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon."

Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

Read his full Nobel Prize banquet speech: https://t.co/SJMmYV3DIA

[Charlie @itrookery]

“To live outside the law, you must be honest.”
Bob Dylan ….. Happy Birthday

#bobdylan #musician #music

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways.

What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.

Robert Creeley, born #OTD in 1926

https://t.co/CDWDeIMUba

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Joan Didion 💙

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

How much sorrow can I hold? That's how much gratitude I can give.

[Peege @bloodsigns]

😴😴😴Joanna Klink • The Nightfields