San Jose artist Carlos Pérez, who made his name designing the first logo for Apple back in 1977, helped to make the poems pop visually with dreamy, ecologically evocative graphics, printed on aluminum sides that wrap the trash cans. It was really hard," he said, adding, "Kids are thinking about their environment, because they’re seeing adults not doing anything about it." "We sweated over the fact we could only pick 10. Then, a panel of judges led by Santa Clara County’s Poet Laureate Mike McGee sorted through all of it: thoughtful, anguished, half-hearted, even funny. Hundreds of middle and high school students sent in more than 300 short poems. Otherwise, we're going to lose different parts of this beautiful earth." "Please" and "This" by Ishani Cheshire, 12th Grade (Photo: Courtesy of San Jose) It's our youth that recognizes we have to change. Kerry Adams Hapner, Cultural Affairs Director for San Jose, explained that Litter-ature , as the program is called, cultivated then featured 10 winning poems on 500 trash cans in 17 different business improvement districts around the city, The idea is so obvious and clever, you wonder why this kind of thing isn’t everywhere: children’s poems about our troubled planet, urging us to keep it clean.
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