Young Detroiters unlock their inner poets

818 views · Published 24 October 2013 · 8:22 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2013 · News & Politics

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Detroit schools are turning their students into published poets with a little guidance from professional writers and a program called InsideOut. Jeffrey Brown reflects with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey about visiting the Motor City middle-schoolers and the "sense of power" she witnessed as they found their voices.

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