Bronx WRITeS

Mayor de Blasio Spends Afternoon with DreamYard Students http://conta.cc/1iY7mz2

Mayor de Blasio Spends Afternoon with DreamYard Students

Park Opening, The Public Theater's Tempest and Exploring the Arts in Europe! http://conta.cc/16edS01

Park Opening, The Public Theater's Tempest and Exploring the Arts in Europe!

Join us at the Bronx Arts Festival in June! http://conta.cc/11drgYC

Join us at the Bronx Arts Festival in June!

DreamYard's poetry program was recently featured on the Disney Channel with Caroline Kennedy as part of their program, Disney 365! We were very excited to see so many young poets from your schools featured throughout this segment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNBWr8B9hmI

Poems to Learn by Heart — Caroline Kennedy More about Poems to Learn By Heart: In this diverse collection, a companion to her New York Times #1 best-seller A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has chos...

Bronx poets in the Bronx celebrate their poetry! We had Disney 365 film our event and celebrate Caroline Kennedy, a longtime DreamYard supporter, and her new book of poems: Poems to Learn by Heart. Caroline has taught in our after-school poetry project and at DY Prep. Disney star Laura Marano and Caroline Kennedy were both there to celebrate with the students.

Congratulations to PS/MS 95 for winning the Middle school Poetry Slam finals competition!!!

Congratulations to PS 146 for winning the Elementary school Poetry Slam finals!!!

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have give 5 Gold Keys, 7 Silver Keys & 3 Honorable Mentions to DreamYard! We are thrilled that our students are being recognized for their excellence in poetry & photography!

Summertime Favorites | National Endowment for the Humanities The year was 1988. Ronald Reagan was retiring after eight years as president, Mikhail Gorbachev led the Soviet Union, and Nelson Mandela was spending his twenty-fifth year in prison. Rain Main was a popular movie, and a third of Yellowstone National Park was burned when 250 fires spread wildly under...

Bronx School's Arts Program Flourishes Despite Roadblocks Brothers Ebenezer (left) and Richard (right) Johnson both performed in the show, Ebenezer reciting poetry and Richard taking part in the hip-hop dancing. (Photo courtesy PS/MS 95 )

Con Edison: Vote Overview The freedom to vote is the hallmark of our democracy. It is both a privilege and a civic duty. Yet, in the 2008 elections, only 64 percent of voting-age citizens voted.

Teen Writing Contest running during the month of April! Teens can submit entries in poetry and prose categories. We'll select three winners from each category as well as honorable mentions. Participants will be invited to a reception on June 11th where winners will read their submissions and a panel of writers, poets and editors will share their advice and experiences. We'll share the winners works on our website and compile them into a book printed on our new Espresso Book Machine (http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/central/ebm)

You can find more details, a flyer, and writing prompts on our website:

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/kids-teens/teenzone/shout-out

Espresso Book Machine® (EBM) | Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and On Demand Books recently installed an Espresso Book Machine (EBM) in Central Library’s Grand Lobby. The EBM offers library patrons instant access to over eight million titles that are written in a variety of languages. With the push of a button, any book from Espres...