Teen Poetry Issue 2021

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Editor's Note

 

Winners

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First Place: Tara Tulshyan, Vignettes from an Only Daughter Who is Now a Wife

          A Soul Table for Grandma’s Death Anniversary

Second Place: Dimiter Zafirov, Homie Dead

Third Place: Reva Gandhi, Sweet Ignorant Bliss

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Feedback on winning poems from Ashley M. Jones

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Honorable Mentions

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Grace Bondurant, Demise Blossom

Ellie Cushing, Gender War

Aniya Fields, I see her soul right through her eyes

Abigail Rudolph, Prodigal Daughter

       Speak Out

Layla Sisson, Closet

       Sugar and Spice

 

Additional Poems

 

Ellie Ashlock, If I am a daisy

Alexa Barber, Dark Perception

McKena Barrow, My Mental Circus

Brendan Chew, I am Afraid

Madison Curran, Simple Flower

Eryl Diamond-Odell, Uncle Micheal

Milo DuFresne, PTSD

Aiden Edstrom, The Eyes

Alana Frazier,  Social Commentary

Robert Hines,  Dreams of the Sky

Hannah Kukoda, Heart

Presley Long, Sometimes when I think of you

Sean Mayfair, Dancer

       E-Learner

Jada McKinney, Up

Kale Taylor Morrison, Battle Ready

Isabella Patterson, Moments

Isaiah Roberts, Obsession

Ernesto Rodriguez, Color

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