For troubled teens, poetry offers happiness after hardships
Clip: 3/17/2014 | 9m 13s
The Pongo Teen Writing Project takes troubled teens' stories and turning them into poetry.
The Pongo Teen Writing Project has been working with troubled teens in detention centers, mental health facilities and homeless centers for nearly two decades, taking their stories and turning them into poetry. In our ongoing series "Where Poetry Lives," Jeffrey Brown and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey learn more about a program that empowers young people in crisis to express themselves.
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For troubled teens, poetry offers happiness after hardships
Clip: 3/17/2014 | 9m 13s
The Pongo Teen Writing Project has been working with troubled teens in detention centers, mental health facilities and homeless centers for nearly two decades, taking their stories and turning them into poetry. In our ongoing series "Where Poetry Lives," Jeffrey Brown and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey learn more about a program that empowers young people in crisis to express themselves.
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