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We offer creative solutions for youth to build literacy skills, reconnect to their education and lives, and serve as leaders.

Join us at 4pm at @nowatnpl.studio for tonight's

The Snap & Thunder Middle School Slam today featur

Calling all teens! Join us for our May open mic. S

In partnership with the Department of Visual and P

Southern Word artist alumni Sarah Anderson, Alan B

We were with Bre today @johnearlymiddle introducin

Nashville Youth Poet Laureate and Nashville School

What does creativity look like in action? It loo

Congratulations to Violet Rae Hansen whose poetry

This summer, you could sit around bored wishing yo

This morning we celebrated all the Stratford write

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September 19, 2025

2026 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate Application Available

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2025 Youth Summer Employment

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September 17, 2024

2025 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate Application Available

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Publications

Raw Fragments

Anthology of Writing
by Stratford STEM Magnet
Students, 2025

Embrace the Rain

Poems from the Adolescents
of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric
Hospital, 2024

Unstuck in Time

Anthology of Writing
by Stratford STEM Magnet
Students, 2023

An Odyssey to Peace

Poems from the Adolescents
of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric
Hospital, 2023

At Our Essence

Poems from the Adolescents
of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric
Hospital, 2020

Mystical and Made of Glass

Poems from the Adolescents
of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric
Hospital, 2019

Voyages and Visitors

Stories and poems by the
teen writers at Studio NPL
and Southern Word, 2019

Reflections Unseen

Poems from the Adolescents
of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric
Hospital, 2018

On This Complicated Planet

Stories and poems by the
teen writers at Studio NPL
and Southern Word, 2018

Empty and Beautiful, Yet Full of the Sea

Poems from the Adolescents
of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric
Hospital, 2017