In the News: Pizza Poetry in the Advocate

By Susan Larson

The New Orleans Advocate

April 19, 2017

If you order a pizza on Friday, there might be something special on the box.

On that night, pies from G’s Pizza, Garage Pizza, Mid City Pizza, Pizza Delicious and Theo’s Neighborhood Pizza will arrive with a poem on the cardboard, written by a young person in New Orleans.

Those stanzas and couplets have made a long journey from the creative mind of a young poet before being read by professional poets, educators and interns, attached to something delicious and delivered to your door.

It’s for a good cause: Pizza Poetry Day and the programs of Big Class, an innovative writing program dedicated to making the voices of New Orleans students ages 6-18 heard.

Those voices come through loud and clear in the innovative, funny, smart and imaginative poems that will add a little spice to your pizza on Friday. After Pizza Poetry Day, the poems will be collected and published in an anthology.

Read more here.