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I have washed my hands thirty-four times today but my hands are still stained with last January.

Dear Youth, PoetryTuri SiosonOctober 18, 2020Featured SliderComment

Four Letter Words (over 76 Days)

because your kisses remind me of light plums and golden chains and full mugs of all our favorite caffeinated drinks and everytime i wake up in these panics i remember why i hate january

Dear Youth, PoetryKyla RainJuly 11, 2020Comment

“You Taste Like Verandas and Mid-Afternoon”

Poetry by Bridget Gwyn.

Poetry, Dear YouthAbby StrangwardJuly 6, 2020Comment

“A Conversation Between Myself and the Ghosts of the Past”: A Poem on The History of LGBTQ+ Rights in the United States

history repeats itself. don’t you know? [by Chloe Johnston]

Dear Youth, PoetryAbby StrangwardJune 30, 2020Featured SliderComment

“The Tea Tastes Different This Morning”- a Covid-19 Collaborative Poem

A month ago, we asked 50+ participants to create work relating to COVID-19 over the course of 24 hours, and then pulled our favourite lines from each one to form a collective experience through a single poem. Following the cycles of human nature and grief, this is a love letter to the people who helped create it.

Dear Youth, PoetryAbby StrangwardApril 27, 2020Featured Slider Comments

I cried every day of quarantine

Showers felt warmer, and sleeping wasn’t lonely.

Dear Youth, PoetryAbby StrangwardMarch 28, 2020Comment

shiny white teeth, hollowed out youth

“we live to rebel but are so afraid of being caught”

Dear Youth, PoetryChloe HofrichterSeptember 3, 2019Featured Slider Comment

a diamond for the I love you, a martini for the let me fuck you. (poems by ishani)

the motel sign buzz of his lips down my spine

Dear Youth, PoetryIshaniJune 10, 2019Dear Youth (4)Comment

"I’d condense chaos into 14 lines if I could"

My professor said something about entropy. Everything is continuing toward chaos, or something to that extent.

Dear Youth, PoetryJuliana TattoliMay 12, 2019poetry, Dear Youth (4)Comment

honey love (3 poems from mhari's upcoming book)

It is like a scrapbook filled with people, lessons, the sad times, the good times, art that I’ve created and collected, and art that was given to me.

Dear Youth, Poetry, FriendsAbby StrangwardMarch 26, 2019poetry, dear youth, Dear Youth (3)Comment

irrelevant / clearly / idk / weekend / will U

em glasser blurs the lines between poetry and song, photography and music.

Dear Youth, PoetryAbby StrangwardMarch 12, 2019music review, Dear Youth (3) Comment

At 18 my grandma was driving 5 minutes North to Michigan to get drunk (a poem)

At 18 my mom was recently married children on the way / The home that she grew up is not the same as mine / The leisure they were given has never crossed my mind.

Dear Youth, PoetryKyla RainFebruary 23, 2019poem, poetry, dear youth, growing up, 35mm, CULTURE CATEGORY, Dear Youth (3) Comments