b'poetryLooking for a poem? Dial the hotline POETRYTrapeta B. Mayson createdA new poem is added weekly. InHOTLINEPhiladelphias poetry hotline. Peopleaddition, the hotline provides a phone who call the Healing Verse Phillynumber that people can call for help Poetry Line can hear a free recordingwhen theyre feeling sad or depressed.The Healing Verse Philly of a poem by a writer from the area. The poetry hotline achieves three mainPoetry Line number is:Healthy Eagle reporters spoke withgoals, according to Ms. Mayson: Ms. Mayson about the hotline. Ms.1-855-763-6792Mayson says she created it during1 Everyone has a chance to hear a the pandemic. She had just becomepoem. Philadelphias 202021 poet laureate.2 It provides resources for mental Covid started and I was like, Oh mywell-being.goodness, what am I going to do? How am I going to reach people? How am I3 It is a public arts project. going to talk to people about poetryChildren and adults can whennobody can go outside and besubmit their own poems to be with one another? considered for the hotline.People were frightened about theBy Healthy Eagle staffdisease, she says, and she was hoping that the poems would help them not be so scared and not be so worried. KindIntelligentNiceDeterminedNiceEasy goingSmartSillyPoem by Amber Lane, 4th grade, James Logan Healthy EaglePage 7 illustrations by Aubree Mercardo, 5th grade, William Cramp Fit Flyer (touching hands) | Iuliia Avilova, 7th grade, MaST Community Charter Healthy Panther Post (heart) S p r i n g 2 0 2 4 | H E A L T H Y N E W S W O R K S . O R G7'