Phoenix was born in Manhattan but raised in the suburbs of New Jersey. Her first poems were about cutting boards and aliens. She followed...

Trace Howard DePass is the author of Self-portrait as the space between us (PANK Books, 2018) and editor of Scholastic’s Best Teen...

Hannah Beresford, originally of the Helderberg Escarpment of upstate New York, earned her MFA from New York University after spending...

Testimony “Procure the bag Secure your crown Áse” ~kgn Kemara Gwendolyn “Ny” Night has a big name with a larger history. With a heavy...

As soon as I walked into my classroom with my mentors at New Directions Secondary School, I was bombarded with whoops and hollers as if I...

This is what is feared: that flags do not nourish the blood, that history is not glorious or truthful. I sleep and dream in two...

Michelle Houslanger is a poet and current MFA candidate at Sarah Lawrence College. She graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College...

Kurt Peloquin is a poet, teaching artist, and multimedia producer from Brooklyn, New York who believes that everyone is an artist. Over...

Jean-Luc is a recent graduate with a B.A in Creative Writing and minor in Religion and Psychology from Florida State University. Jean-Luc...

During these first few months in Community-Word Project's Teaching Artist Project (TAP) Saturday training sessions, I’ve learned how to...