LinkLinksOpinion David Aldridge on The Athletic: At home in D.C., covering the teams and city that I love By Editor On Sep 10, 2018 48 Share At around 8 years old, I had written some doggerel for a school assignment that passed as poetry: “the teacher is gone/the children hum/now we can all chew chewing gum.” (Who remembers things like that?) But one of my teachers liked it enough to recommend I write some more and submit it to Ebony Magazine, the storied and influential monthly chronicler of African-American life, as part of a young poets’ contest, or something. But I said no, out of fear I wouldn’t win, or that the kids in my school would laugh at me. DC SportsMediaThe Athletic 48 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
Comments are closed.