Poem: elegy for the [insert school shooting] children’s f—


by The Texas Observer

The Texas Observer— To submit a poem, please send an email, with the poem as an attachment, to [email protected]. We are looking for previously unpublished works of no more than 30 lines, by Texas poets who have not been published by the Observer in the last two years. Pay is $100 on publication.

The Independent—Violence involving children ‘almost epidemic’ warns former children’s commissioner after two school stabbings. Anne Longfield CBE, now chair of Commission on Young Lives, says ‘barely a week’ passes without a violent incident

The Republic—A song of ‘Success’: Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir to perform new work based on late local woman’s poem. A late local poet whose work was featured on a “Poem Page” in The Evening Republican decades ago will have her words come to life when performed as a song by the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir. Continue reading at The Republic News.

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