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WITS PSAs

The WITS Public Service Announcements remind us of the genius of children.  In each of the ads, a published author reads a portion of a WITS student's poem and then concludes, "I wish I'd written that."  The authors include Sandra Cisneros and former US Poet Laureate Charles Simic. 

Katherine Center Sandra Cisneros Carolyn Forché
 Katherine Center  Sandra Cisneros  Carolyn Forché
Chitra Divakaruni Edward Hirsch William July
Chitra Divakaruni Edward Hirsch  William July
Jonathan Lethem Rubén Martínez Charles Simic
  Jonathan Lethem Rubén Martínez Charles Simic
PSA Spanish Mimi Swartz Jeannette Walls
Cisneros Spanish Mimi Swartz Jeannette Walls 
Andrea White    
Andrea White    

 

 

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A Poem A Day

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The Watchful Eye: A WITS Student Reading
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