by Amy Friedman | Aug 11, 2017 | Volunteers
James De Larme, the POPS the Club teacher sponsor at El Camino Real Charter High, first learned about POPS from his wife, Karie DeLarme, who works with at-risk and homeless youth through LAUSD’s Homeless Education Department . Since the fall of 2016, James has led...
by Amy Friedman | Jun 30, 2017 | POPS authors
I feel the ocean breeze Kicking back and smoking bomb tree Thinking of this world as a killing disease Like the air for the Japanese I know I got no school degree Not middle or even elementary But f__ it, I’m doing just fine eating seeds My mom saying don’t leave mi...
by Amy Friedman | Jun 16, 2017 | POPS authors
Regardless of the circumstances, what happened last year changed my life for the better. Walking towards the car where my mother was waiting after school on April 25, 2015, the sun felt warm on my shoulders. The sun was shining brightly at 3 o’clock. We drove off,...
by Amy Friedman | Jun 9, 2017 | POPS authors
How could she? I was only gone for a second. Or was it a year? A year that felt like a century. I had been replaced faster than I could blink. I see them together and I feel a sharp pain in my back; red, hot, blood pouring—and I catch a glimpse of a giant silver...
by Amy Friedman | Jun 2, 2017 | POPS authors
Innocence is given to us all at birth But through the pollution of what’s around us It is corrupted and tainted without mirth The pillars of family broken down one by one All through your selfish actions An easy way in life is sought But reaped the wrath of the...
