Using poetry submissions from NPR listeners about the first day of school, poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander created a poem that embraces all the anxiety, anticipation, and excitement that can accompany the first day.
Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesStudent backpacks in a classroom at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on June 24, 2022 in New York City.The poet Rumi wrote,"Let the beauty we love be what we do." With a new school year underway, many teachers are drawn to their classrooms by just that sense of love."I love my job, and my job, of course, is to change the world, one word at a time," says NPR's Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander.
Alexander took submissions and stitched them into a community-sourced poem — embracing all the anxiety, anticipation and excitement that the first days of school can bring.This Year Shall Be DifferentAnd that kids like themselves — dogged and bent and quirky and kind —Give them voice and choice,Because We are scaffolding somebodiesFind one more student desk from the hallSort and organize the knowledge of centuriesOrganize your backpack when papers come unfurledin a culture of fast answers.
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