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18 Feb Remember (You) are Dust by Julianne Neely

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

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.

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Nautica - Youth Ambassador - Writing Center - Just Buffalo Literary Center

16 Feb Meet the Youth Ambassador: Nautica

Posted at 09:00h in Community, JBWC Youth Ambassador Program, Just Buffalo Writing Center, Young Writers

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

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

Among the waste of trees perched near the water tower, songbirds choke
on strands of brown hair, mistaking them for worms.

Read "Wake" by Spencer Williams

04 Feb “Song” by Tracy Fuad

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

Sometimes it was just a humming
Which came through the windows at night

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28 Jan “We are more than mere endurance” by Isaac Pickell

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

What I love about ruins
is how they begin
to resemble the land

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21 Jan “Healing” by Deborah Osborne

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

my friend told me how
for the last time, he brushed his
dying mother's long
Cherokee hair

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19 Jan Youth Unleashed: A Look Back at the 2023 Open Mic Season Finale by Zelda Abramovich

Posted at 11:37h in JBWC Youth Ambassador Program, Just Buffalo Writing Center, Young Writers

In November 2023, a wonderful group of almost 30 young writers, artists, and performers from Just Buffalo, GLYS, Teen Reality Theatre, and Dunbar Youth Theater Arts, kicked off the last JBWC Open Mic of the season with some incredible performances.