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Benefits of writing poetry: In an age of high stakes testing, a school enrolling some of the city's most disadvantaged students is offering a course that is part therapy and part creative writing.

Benefits of writing poetry: In an age of high stakes testing, a school enrolling some of the city's most disadvantaged students is offering a course that is part therapy and part creative writing.

If you don't learn to write your own life's story, someone else will write it for you.

If you don't learn to write your own life's story, someone else will write it for you.

Benefits of writing poetry: The American schools are in crisis. At one high school in New York's poorest borough, The Bronx, three passionate people have responded and created their own form of learning outside a system that has left students in the lurch for years. Here they use language and poetry to strengthen the youth's belief that they can change their life situation.

Benefits of writing poetry: The American schools are in crisis. At one high school in New York's poorest borough, The Bronx, three passionate people have responded and created their own form of learning outside a system that has left students in the lurch for years. Here they use language and poetry to strengthen the youth's belief that they can change their life situation.