The joy of watching young voices blossom this year at Clippert Academy turned InsideOut Writer-In-Residence Jamaal May into a writer almost at a loss for words. “I can’t tell you how much this opportunity has given. It keeps giving, over and over.The new teacher I worked with this year, Mr….

InsideOut is proud to support the members of the Detroit Youth Slam Team, six homegrown young voices who have won the right to represent Motown this year during the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival in San Francisco. Our students’ talent took center stage during the recent Get…

InsideOut Writer-in-Residence Pete Markus is a master at unlocking the imaginations of young writers. His lessons give students literary wings, proving time and again a truth that Markus made so famous; First Lady Michelle Obama even quoted him, “If you ask a kid to dream, he’ll dream.” Mrs. Obama quoted…

For the InsideOut Literary Arts Project,  May 2011 will certainly be a month of grand memories. Our students’ work and words have made headlines in high places, while our staff rose to new heights to host nearly an event each with this month. We’re excited to close the month out…

InsideOut was pleased to send students to the White House for the second time in two years. Ten InsideOut writers from Cody High School and our after-school program, Citywide Poets joined students from across the country at an invitation only poetry workshop sponsored by President Obama and the first lady,…