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Old Friends
We said we’d meet up Just you and me, I got all dressed up You looked so happy, We walked down the street, The day was so clear, I took…
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Someone New
By Alissa Mollett, 17 i was bare without Your taunting laugh to clothe me with comfortable cowardice. i was cold without Your burning eyes to watch as i walked away.
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blind in hindsight
my mind is a book with illustrations color flies freely from page to page each turn more vivid than the last but when i reach your chapter i am overwhelmed…
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How I Lost My Mom
By Hannah Sterkel, 18, Missouri Creeping into my parents’ bedroom, I stand on my tiptoes to peer over the bed at them. My mom is holding the biggest teddy bear…
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Thirty Years
I see a lot of stereotypes about older married couples squabbling constantly. There seems to be a commonly-held view that love will inevitably deteriorate over time, and I believe that…
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Flat Soda
A small room, Bunked with my brothers, Laughing together, Until the sun rises on this harmonious moment, And we journey together into the new day. All gathered, A klatch around…
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Dear Future Daughter
By Camyia Shobe-Thomas, 16 I was mostly raised by my dad so I was taught to be strong, Taught to never let people see you cry, So I lived by…
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I Miss Her
By Helen Ngo, 16 Medium: paper and colored pencil This is a portrait of my beautiful grandmother–a reference I took myself when I visited her long ago. I wanted to…
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Before the Fall
By Tiffany Huynh, 18 Medium: pen and ink I drew a landscape (a street in Saigon before the Fall of Saigon in 1975) that symbolically depicts my origin story. I…
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Western Portrait
By Trish Le, 17 Grandma says: Con, bring an umbrella, look more AmericanNo boys will like you if you don’t look AmericanBe more American means be more white means disappearMy…
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Introductions
Hannah Sterkel, 17 Hello! My name is Hannah. I am seventeen years old and I live in St. Louis. My pronouns are she and her. I have a dog named…
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Knowledge
People say that knowledge is power and if that is true then I wanted to be powerless again.
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It’s Safer in My Bedroom
It's safer in here. Love, your anxious daughter
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Young Love Turned Toxic: Abuse, Cheating, and Pregnancy
Anonymous, as told to Renee Childs The experience that I want to get out is heartbreak. Being betrayed in so many ways, at such a young age, then messing up…
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Daughters and Sons Treated Differently: A Mother’s Complex Love
The biggest thing in life that I have overcome is learning how to accept people for who they are.
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This is an I Love You Poem
I try to maintain eye contact even though I am continuously interrupted. Like clouds floating in front of the sun, the world goes dark when I cannot see you.
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It’s OK to be Alone
This Thursday is Valentines Day… which can bring in mixed feelings if you’re not in a relationship. When I look back on high school and college, I wish I would…
