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Southern Word School Program

November 14, 2019

Unstoppable – Uno1take

July 11, 2019

Carmen – Forever Thing

January 13, 2019

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

For 21 and up. Southern Word alumni are putting on

The Belmont Global Honors Program and Belmont Scho

Thank you to @1city4allpeople for inviting 2024 Na

We want to share a reminder that revenue from Tenn

LGBTQ+ teens should join us for a time of bonding

Congratulations and thank you to all the Youth Poe

Join us this Thursday, November 21st at 4pm at the

This is a special event for us. We’ve been worki

Tonight! Tennessee Youth Poet Laureate Mel Dalili

This is a regular high point for us each year. Cat

It was great welcoming Tennessee Youth Poet Laurea

Tonight we’re going to be @rbqnashville building

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September 17, 2024

2025 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate Application Available

-Southern Word

March 18, 2024

Meet Our Grantee-Partner: Southern Word

-The Poetry Foundation

May 15, 2024

The reason we can’t breathe’: Nashville Youth Poet Laureate takes on book bans and arming teachers

-Cynthia Abrams, 90.3 WPLN

March 19, 2024

“More Than Just Art”: Stratford Students Express Themselves in Writers’ Room and New Book

-Metro Nashville Public Schools

Publications

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