01 Mar Apply for the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellowship!
Applications for the 2024 JBWC Youth Fellowship are officially open as of today, March 1, 2024!
01 Mar Meet the Youth Ambassador: Zelda
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Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Zelda—a junior in high school and a poet.
25 Feb Untitled Obituary by Yamilla M. Tate
I write this obituary:.
The bottle collector pushes his cart..
The girl fixes her hijab on her way to the bus stop..
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The bottle collector pushes his cart..
The girl fixes her hijab on her way to the bus stop..
24 Feb Just Buffalo Presents Tracy Fuad, Spencer Williams, and Julianne Neely
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On Friday, February 23, 2024, Just Buffalo Literary Center presented readings from poets Tracy Fuad, Spencer Williams, and Julianne Neely.
23 Feb Meet the Youth Ambassador: Angelina
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Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Angelina—a senior in high school and a versatile writer with a passion for reaching people with her work.
18 Feb Remember (You) are Dust by Julianne Neely
like this poem, like our beta fish waiting
at the fault line of water and death, to be fed
like the house flea on our blood, like an anemic.
Read "Remember (You) are Dust" by Julianne Neely
at the fault line of water and death, to be fed
like the house flea on our blood, like an anemic.
16 Feb Meet the Youth Ambassador: Nautica
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Meet the heartbeat of Just Buffalo's Writing Center: our 2023-2024 Youth Ambassadors. This week, we're celebrating Nautica—a senior in high school and a poet and novelist.
11 Feb Wake by Spencer Williams
Among the waste of trees perched near the water tower, songbirds choke
on strands of brown hair, mistaking them for worms.
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on strands of brown hair, mistaking them for worms.
04 Feb “Song” by Tracy Fuad
Sometimes it was just a humming
Which came through the windows at night
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Which came through the windows at night
28 Jan “We are more than mere endurance” by Isaac Pickell
What I love about ruins
is how they begin
to resemble the land
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is how they begin
to resemble the land