Pongo Project Journal
Sharing stories of our work with teensPongo Project Blog
RICHARD GOLD, Founder Pongo Teen Writing Project
Recent Posts
- Blessed are Women
- In the Wake of Anti-Asian Violence, Wishing for Peace
- Dreaming Big This Black History Month
- Letter to My Nephew
- "Stepping Up to Be a Queen"
- A Poem for Inauguration Day, 2021
- Takeaway Wishes On the Eve of 2020
- Feelings of Gratitude in Fall, 2020
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel is Not a Train
- Letters Out of Darkness
- I Did Not Ask to be Different
- We Kiss Our Pens to Paper: Pongo Poetry Prize October 2015
- My Loved Ones
- Strengths
- Waiting to Slip
- I Remember the One Time
- Guns Wash Away Your Life
- I Am Thinking
- The Last Time
- I Am Not From Nowhere
- Love
- Fortitude
- Forgiveness
- Crumbles
- To Love Life
- There Is Just Us
- What Makes You, You
- Firelight in the Dark Corners of Memory
- Safety in the Stranger: Episodic Epiphanies in Pongo
- The Satsifaction of Making Something Real
- Professional Art & Pongo
- Yes, Joy & Yes, Doubt.
- What Youth Say About Writing
- To Watch Their Faces
- Family: A Hand-Woven Tapestry of Memories
- Loss: A Shape-Shifter
- Being Pretty on the Inside
- Where I Come From
- Benefits of Writing Poetry
- The Colors of Their Lives
- Riding in My Own Canoe to Find a Dream
- Poetry Saved My Life
- Dear Mom
- Trapped in Life!!
- When I Face My Fear
- To the Poets at Global Connections H.S.!
- Starcia
- The Desire We Feel to Do More
- The Trauma of Child Abuse
- As Strong as the Waves that Swallow Me
- Celebrating Maggie
- Warm Smiles in Winter
- Very Happy News!
- Watching Her and Her
- Richard is Honored!
- The Quieter We Become
- Approaching the Trauma, Not the Crime
- Love Is a Useless Puppy
- Cops
- Thea
- Thanks for the Rose
- Shaun
- Good for You!
- Loss, Love, & Ambivalence
- A Prize Poem
- Relationships
- Poetry, Demons, and Dragons
- Mike
- In My Blood to Be a Drunk
- Hearts Out Loud
- Shannon
- I Feel Like Weights Have Been Lifted
- Mission Creek
- A Black Hole in the Spirit
- How Do You Talk About Violence?
- Lost Family and Deep Shame
- Feeling Invisible
- Telling Your Story, Claiming Your Life