Hip Deep: Opinion, Essays, and Vision from American Teenagers - Softcover

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9780976270621: Hip Deep: Opinion, Essays, and Vision from American Teenagers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976270625 ISBN 13: 9780976270621

Publisher: Next Generation Pr, 2006

This groundbreaking anthology presents the freshest young writers and thinkers--age 19 and under--on important issues of our time. From ethnic relations to individual identity, international politics to voting rights, divorce to gay marriage, standardized testing to popular culture, these authors tackle the subjects they care about most. Hip Deep collects its youth voices from many sources: editorials, radio journals, essays, commentary, spoken word, web articles, and more. Poet Naomi Shihab Nye calls Hip Deep a collection to wipe the sorrowful spin of news from our eyes and ears, to remind us there is truth out there somewhere, and it's young as well as timeless, and it feels wonderful to find it. This is a book for every teacher, every high school, every parent, and every person in this land who cares about the intriguing, necessary stories of young lives.

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From the Publisher:

Know a young writer eager to be heard? HIP DEEP includes a comprehensive list of the best venues--in print and online--for young people to publish their work. In the back of the book, a practical guide called "How To Publish Your Work" breaks the mystifying process down into simple steps.

From the Author:

I want to invite young people to write, speak, and take any venue available--the web, the radio, poetry slams, the Xerox machine--to express yourselves. Publish in the original sense of the word: Make your views public! I want to invite teachers to deal with students' raw life material in the writing process. Use this collection in the classroom, inspire students to write from their own experience, and watch as miracles occur. Come on in, open your heart, expand your brain. It's Hip to be Deep.

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