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Today we travelled to Childen's Literacy Foundation, a small nonprofit in Waterbury Center, Vt., that brings books to rural communities as well as immigrant families, children of prisoners, families in shelters and others down on their luck and situation. CLIF also sponsors writer and illustrator workshops in schools. Some of the presenters, poet Leland Kinsey for one, are amazing.

Our plan to partner is this: We will help publish the best work from the workshops. We also will probably build a Web site for use by a CLIF workshop this spring. Last year, one of our partner schools -- Marcotte Central School -- were preparing for a visit by a wonderful author, Helen Frost. The teacher had students write in Frost's style and to emulate one of Frost's specialties: Shape poems. Then the teacher, in anticipation of Frost's visit, invited her onto the site to view the students' work and comment.

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Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 22:14

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Geoffrey Gevalt  founded and directs the Young Writers Project, a VT nonprofit working to build a generation of better writers. Lee McIsaac directs YWP's mentoring and publication programs.Kate Fallone is a longtime UVM mentor and YWP instructor. This blog highlights cool things students and teachers are doing, talks about activities at YWP and shows some of the impact of this project.   PLEASE COMMENT; otherwise we will think no one is reading. Thanks.

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