The Student Publishing Program

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Read the teen poems we’ve already begun publishing alongside poems by Pulitzer Prize-winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser!

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The online literary magazine of Massachusetts' Lexington High School, where we've successfully piloted SPP for five years.

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Ted Kooser

A Winter Morning

A farmhouse window far back from the highway
speaks to the darkness in a small, sure voice.
Against this stillness, only a kettle’s whisper,
and against the starry cold, one small blue ring of flame.

Sarah E.

Constellations

bright, beautiful
telling, showing, shining
stories soar across the sky.
Pictures in the night.

Sarah E. is a middle school student.

Sean Russell

The Snow Day

The world sits quietly
in a blanket of white.
The smells of a crackling fire
and steaming hot chocolate waft into my room.

I lie in bed,
relaxed and eager to start my school-less day
of exhilarating snowball fights and sledding.

The true beauty of snow days is that
there is no distraction.
The world shuts down.
Simple pleasures -
the way the world should be.

Sean Russell’s poem was first published in Lexington High School’s Online Literary Journal, 2:25 PM, by The Student Publishing Program, a free creative writing program that gives students the confidence and skills to write for a wider audience, and then publishes and promotes student books with 100% of the profits going back to each school.

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