the HOOVER ELEMENTARY 5th grade-penned book I have wings / yo tengo alas TAKES FLIGHT!
A huge hanks to the very generous Stanford alumni who spent last Saturday with us sewing 100 handmade books!
In a new anthology of poems, I Have Wings/Yo Tengo Alas ten Oakland fifth graders rewrite the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their own words. With frank and exquisite language, the young poets offer rich insight into what it means to have the freedom to move, rest, think, seek a safe place to live, be cared for, and have a family. Nearly seventy-five years after it was drafted by the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is clarified and humanized by young voices.
This anthology marks the fourth year that we’ve come together with the same Hoover students, now in fifth grade, to write and publish poems. Thanks to Janine MacBeth for the book cover, Alvaro Villanueva for the design, Anna Kingsley for bookmaking consultations, the City of Oakland and Arts for Oakland Kids for making this program possible, and Hoover Elementary for our beautiful years-long partnership!