Pongo Poetry Project
Organization Details
| Name | Pongo Poetry Project |
| URL | not provided |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Our mission is to engage youth in poetry writing to inspire healing from trauma. |
| Service(s) description | Pongo encourages youth participants to “write from the heart about who you are as a person”. Pongo Poetry Mentors are clear with students that while poetry can be many things (lists, rants, memories, stories) and focus on a diverse array of topics (favorite foods, sports, home), their poetry does not have to rhyme nor does their poetry have to take on long or complicated forms. We believe that honesty is the most important quality in good poetry, and we share this with youth participants at the beginning of every workshop. |
| Program impact | not provided |
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