The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation

The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation Our newest and largest scale endeavor is the St. Louis Poetry Slab, a project that will strive to engage 3 million residents in 15 counties in the greater St.

The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP™), a 501(c)(3) public charity, was founded in 2010 with the mission to transform young lives, improve classrooms and unite communities through innovative poetry writing programming and other supportive activities. The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP™) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that transforms young lives, improves classrooms and unites communities

through innovative student poetry programming and other supportive initiatives. For six years, we began programming to create a writing revolution by donating poetry writing contests that included every 7th grade student, in all types of schools, in every community. 7GP seeks to create a national educational literary arts "write of passage" that helps develop our nation’s best and most diverse generation of poets laureate. Louis area in a highly creative form of poetry writing called concrete poetry. Poems written in this style are shape-inspired. Ultimately, more than 130 competitions will result in poems permanently engraved on public sidewalks. Each poem will be different, not negative, not divisive, and will be G-rated.

04/15/2026

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04/04/2026

The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation identified more than 30 potential locations in for shape-inspired Poetry Slab creations by local residents.


01/18/2026

HOW TO ENJOY POETRY
by James Dickey

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01/03/2026

“Trees” by Joyce Kilmer

12/05/2025
12/02/2025

have been pledged for our new endevour to enable to gift at least 100 local rural students a copy of one of our anthologies of winning poetry. The teacher in each of their schools will also get a free copy. 7GP’s season of gifting poetry has begun.

A Robert Frost November poem.
11/02/2025

A Robert Frost November poem.

My November Guest

Congratulations to our next US Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze
09/15/2025

Congratulations to our next US Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze

The Poetry Foundation congratulates Arthur Sze for being named the nation’s 25th U.S. Poet Laureate! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Sze's Laureateship adds to a long list of honors, including a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation. Through the Laureateship, he plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages.

Sze will read his work on Thursday, October 9, at the Library of Congress and via livestream. Learn more, including how to participate: https://bit.ly/4n2irSS

08/18/2025

Palindromes 🤓

07/15/2025

Horrificly tragic news that six of the seven employees of the NH Council for the Arts have been laid off due to a severe budget cuts from the New Hampshire legislature. Makes little sense that elected officials can’t understand Arts funding impacts how many jobs are created in multiple industries, how Arts funding directly influences test scores as well as lifelong educational, career and social skill outcomes.

When deciding where to relocate, our charity found the input from the New Hampshire Council for the Arts 100% helpful, professional, encouraging and supportive of our mission. We felt a solid partnership, even friendship, could be developed. The resources and contacts shared facilitated our commitment to make this recent move…and, now here, we learn of this legislative axing.

7GP fully realizes that strong-armed woke agendas have divided communities and taken away Arts opportunities for many portions of the general population for more than a decade. But “baby with the bathtub” spite is short-sighted.

As with many group change agendas, it has been our belief that change is better accomplished by joining a group to form a new majority within than killing off the lifeforce feeding the group entirely.

As our charity has learned over several decades, private funding has proven the more reliable way to accomplish goals for individual Arts organizations than relying too heavily on funding through governmental sources. We also hope arts organizations will continue to be advisors to artists and arts groups without political agendas or division.

We hope a new state-elected majority will restore sanity in funding Arts agencies benefitting the general public.

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