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Welcome to Las Voces del Futuro: Poesía de Denny, produced by Denny International Middle School students and Jack Straw Cultural Center. This webpage and our audio recordings and chapbook of the students’ poems are the culmination of a project with Jack Straw artists in residence and students from the eighth grade Dual Language Spanish Immersion program at Denny International Middle School in Seattle, Washington during the winter of 2020. In this project, students in Liz Olsen’s class worked with Jack Straw’s professional writer Raúl Sánchez; vocal coaches Katya Davida Landau and Fernando Luna; and audio engineers Bryan Angeles, Daniel Guenther, CJ Lazenby, and Ayesha Ubayatilaka to write, perform, and record their own poetry. Jack Straw has worked with Denny students since 2012 to help them create and share their stories and poetry and build respect for each other’s experiences.

In addition to these audio recordings, we published an anthology of the students’ poems, both in the original Spanish and translated to English.

Purchase the book here.

Bienvenidos a Las Voces del Futuro: Poesía de Denny, producido por los alumnos de la escuela Denny International Middle School y Jack Straw Cultural Center. Esta página de internet y las grabaciones y antología de los poemas de los alumnos son el proyecto culminante con los artistas en residencia de Jack Straw y los alumnos del programa de Inmersión en Español de la Escuela Internacional Denny en Seattle, Washington durante el invierno de 2020. En este proyeto, los alumnos de las clases de Liz Olsen, trabajaron con el escritor profesional Raúl Sánchez; los entrenadores de voz Katya Davida Landau y Fernando Luna; y los técnicos de audio Daniel Guenther, CJ Lazenby, y Ayesha Ubayatilaka para escribir, presentar, y grabar su propia poesía. Jack Straw ha trabajado con los alumnos de Denny desde el 2012 en ayudarles a crear y compartir sus historias y poesía, además de cultivar respeto por las experiencias ajenas.

Además de estas grabaciones de audio, publicamos una antología de los poemas de los estudiantes, tanto en español original como traducidos al inglés.

Compra el libro aquí.

Voces del Futuro: Poesía de Denny was produced by Denny International Middle School students and Jack Straw Cultural Center with the generous support of the Washington State Arts Commission, Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation, The Creative Advantage, the Denny PTSA, and individual donors through DonorsChoose.

Jack Straw artist team : writer Raúl Sánchez; vocal coaches Katya Davida Landau and Fernando Luna; audio engineers Daniel Guenther, CJ Lazenby, and Ayesha Ubayatilaka; musicians Abel Rocha and Trio Guadalevin; production intern Bryan Angeles; education programs associate Alyssa Keene; video producer Lisa Waagd; designer Levi Fuller; and Executive Director Joan Rabinowitz. Denny students Alina Passmore and Ximena Rios created the cover art. Special thanks to the students of Denny’s eighth grade Spanish immersion program and Denny staff. We especially want to thank Teacher Liz Olsen, Art Team Leader Lida Enche-Keene, Librarian Jeff Treistman, Administrative Secretary Mary Wilson, Fiscal Specialist Cheryl Patterson, and Principal Jeff Clark, who helped make this project possible.

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