Missoula Writing Collaborative

We teach kids to love to write

Missoula Writing Collaborative

The Missoula Writing Collaborative teaches literary competence, critical thinking, cultural awareness, and artistic joy through creative writing.

We place writers in school classrooms, after-school programs, youth homes and other venues to show young people the power of words and help them find their voices as writers. We are a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization committed to reaching the underserved members of our society.

Each year we teach over 1500 kids to love to write.

The Missoula Writing Collaborative is a proud member of The WITS Alliance: A professional network of literary arts education programs and individuals. Learn more at http://witsalliance.org/.

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The Missoula Writing Collborative has been working in classrooms in Western Montana since 1994, and have even worked in Hawaii and Alaska! In our 22 years we've worked with more than 35,000 students in Western Montana classrooms.



This week’s Monday Poem

A Monday Poem on Thursday

With Nature, Naturally

by Sonja

Step outside onto an old cracked porch. Wind
whistles through tall grasses. Spring across
the mountain meadow lying before you. Disappear
into the trees standing tall before you.

Don’t call. Be Quiet. Listen for the chirping
of Mountain Blue Birds. Feel the cool air brushing
off the small stream’s surface. Now do you see me
sitting on a small wooden bridge overseeing the water?

No? Look up to the towering trees. See me standing,
knees scuffed and bruised, observing sildownloadently
as a bear nudges her cub to the water.

If you don’t see me there, travel to the mountain
looming over you. Hike. Climb. Smell the pine trees
guarding the summit. Now you see me, a silhouette
against the setting sun. My dog runs beside me
as I spring to my fort among trees.

 

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