“This stunning and important gathering of writers fuses creative work with intimate testaments to the power of writing to change the lives of both students and teachers.”
– The Bloomsbury Review

City Lights Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the legendary independent publisher and bookstore located in San Francisco, announces a new book by WritersCorps titled “Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose.”

The WritersCorps program, with branches in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York, hires accomplished writers to teach creative writing to low-income youth in juvenile detention facilities, homeless shelters, public schools and centers for newly arrived immigrants. For many, the teaching experience serves as a watershed moment in their careers and lives. “Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds” documents 15 years of this successful national arts in service model.

As President Obama calls for the creation of an Artists Corps, the experiences and stories of the writer-teachers in this anthology are more relevant now than ever. Follow these teaching artists on their journey into the halls and streets of America’s diverse neighborhoods, as they enrich the lives and creativity of their students—and find their own voices changed in the process.

With a foreword by Martin Espada, and edited by Chad Sweeney, a former WritersCorps teacher, “Days” is a collection of memoir, poetry and prose from many of the talented people who formed the ranks of WritersCorps.

Buy the book here.