Jack Straw Writer Merna Ann Hecht‘s Word Travels: Bringing Refugee and Immigrant Voices to the Community is taking an exciting new direction from its roots in the Stories of Arrival: Refugee and Immigrant Youth Voices Poetry Project that took place at Foster High School in Tukwila, WA. Merna and Jack Straw provided hundreds of refugee and immigrant youth opportunities for telling their own stories and giving voice to their hopes and dreams through writing poetry and creating visual arts pieces. The beautiful and impactful ways that poetry, visual art and stories serve to celebrate individual and cultural identities of newcomers to this country are at the heart of every Stories of Arrival and Word Travels project.
Click the link below to learn more and listen to all the recordings, on the Jack Straw website.