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Do you believe this? A teenager in the Bronx who is far too young to be distrusted wrote this line in a Community-Word Project creative arts workshop led by a team of two artists who work with his class every week. Every week he is given a chance to put forward his ideas, aspirations and fears to his peers, his teacher, the artists and to himself.

Last week, Tristan Wilds...

Have you ever had a good idea and needed the right people to make it happen?

For the past 12 years, the organization I founded, Community-Word Project, has worked with at risk public school youth helping them capture their communities and their individual stories through poetry writing, performance and mural making.

To culminate each project we do, every student contributes a poem to a printed and bound anthology to share...