One Lawndale: Part 1

The poets from Latino Youth High School started the first part of their poems for the One Lawndale Project. The multimedia installation aims to connect both the North and South Lawndale neighborhoods, which are the areas that many of the poets hail from. Please check their works in progress!

Afterschool Poetry Program

Untitled by Ashley L.

It’s walking down the streets
Watching the kids run to the ice cream truck
It’s the grass being green but not in the other side
It’s the grass being green here
In our community
It’s the smell of the carne asada
The music blasting
Pure pride in our roots

Untitled by Lidia R.

We all party
But have you been to a block party?
Where everybody’s out to party
Pop out, bring that arrachera

Untitled by Daniel A.

Looking at the layers of paint
Observing the work that they did in order
Imagining the effort and time they went into it
To show up to the spot and begin creating art
So many things many don’t consider

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