Orange Alert

A Poetic Journey

group photo in a hallway setting

Posted on: March 11, 2020

On a Wednesday evening in late January, six local high school and college students gather around a table in the library room of the North Side Learning Center (NSLC), a family literacy organization that provides tutoring and other services for members of the resettled refugee and immigrant community in Syracuse. Over the past year, these students have been on a journey together, writing, revising, collaborating and performing poems. At the outset, none would have described themselves as a poet. Read the story.