Ari's Poetics: How One Young Poet Learned the Secrets of Creative Writing Got Accepted into a Gifted and Talented Program and Kept His Skin from Being...see more

Aristotle Ari Clay has been invited to apply for Scholastics a gifted and talented program for exceptional students at Parkside Middle School in Dilmun Indiana. His mother is thrilled. Ari isnt so sure. To be eligible for the program he must submit an original poem in ten days. While hes been jotting down poems privately for a while he is anxious about submitting poetry for others to read-and judge. Following an unsuccessful first day of poem hunting Ari mistakenly leaves his writing journal on ...See More