Joe Bellacero's Blog (2)

I don’t know about love, but certainly the Second Annual NYCWP Celebratory Reading at the Nuyorican Poets Café, on Saturday May 30, 2009, seemed even better this second time around. Twenty-one students representing ten schools supported by NYCWP consultants, presented poems, memoirs, myths and insightful observations to a rapt audience of friends, family schoolmates and educators. For the second consecutive year, Christopher "Cannon" Mapp, a former student of consultant and event chairperson Al… Continue

“Jen cut the dirty brown dreads that spiraled down her back and became bald. I don't know her anymore. Jen, where are you now? I want to tell you that someone painted the outside of the museum yellow.”--Donna Hutchinson Columbus Circle, The 42nd Street Library, The Conservatory Gardens of Central Park, The South Street Seaport, Greenwich Village, Ellis Island, Harlem, The Cloisters and Crown Heights… Over the past three school years the NYCWP has held nine writing marathons in some of t… Continue