“Fruit Stand,” by Lily Baumgart
November 20, 2017
Fruit Stand Carve red into me, use your whole arms to entangle my body. I want to feel protected and warm, blue-warm like a star nearing expansion. I’ve been told I’m not humbled enough. I want yo...
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Category: Student Writing
A Tune Inspired by A.E. Stallings
November 17, 2017
At our 2017/18 Poetry Series event with A.E. Stallings, folk songwriter Jaspar Lepak dazzled our ears with an original song as part of the Bushwick Book Club program — it’s on repeat at the ...
“Black Courage” by Maven Gardner
November 9, 2017
Black Courage There are wolves in wolves clothing Telling the weak That the sheep are the ones to fear, You are that sheep baby boy. Courage runs in your blood, So you will be tapped into.
“You Do Not Have To Be The Moon,” by Emrys Foster
October 25, 2017
You Do Not Have To Be The Moon You do not have to be the moon. You do not have to follow the sun always in its footsteps you do not have to take fleeting breaths of cold clear nothing through deep cra...
“All You Ever Wanted Was A Semyon to Hold,” by Semyon Kiyan
October 11, 2017
All You Ever Wanted Was A Semyon To Hold After Anastacia Reneé All you ever wanted was a Semyon to hold Why do you always have to be there for your little sister? Why did you get yourself into this? ...
“Do Not Forget” by 2017 YPL Ambassador Namaka Auwae-Dekker
June 8, 2017
Do Not Forget My name is more than Just a name It is a proclamation A declaration of prosperity My name is dead ancestors breathing fresh air My name carries the near dead Tongue of my lineage to shor...
“Our Parents are a Lost Cause,” by 2017 Youth Poet Laureate Lily Baumgart
May 22, 2017
Our Parents Are a Lost Cause I told you to take our mother into your timeless hands. It takes effort for her to move her lips, so let her tell you that she loves you, let her ask you how school was, a...
WITS Voices: Writing is Climate. Writing is Real. Writing is Change.
May 3, 2017
By Cody Pherigo, WITS Writer-in-Residence I’ve become semi-obsessed with checking the weather channel website several times a week for the last 3 months. It’s like Facebook without friends. I wa...
“A Poem in the Voice of the Wind,” by WITS Student Stella Anderson
April 29, 2017
A Poem in the Voice of the Wind Like you, I can make the warmest of weather into a sick, shivering mess. Like you, I am angry, and whip at people’s hair and clothes, though you only do it in your im...
“Falling Angel,” by WITS Student Aaliyah Sayre
April 25, 2017
Falling Angel My father stands by my side listing rule after rule after rule. I roll my eyes and shun his words of caution as he straps on my wings. The wings are big and white. I secretly threaded ...