lights flash / bodies bend / like the minds behind the bathroom stalls / polished tile instead of varnished gym floor / soles (souls) unfit for dancing attempt to replicate that short they stumbled upon last night / dial of pressure cranked to red
love, you say,
is as tenderly golden as
buttercups in may,
as apollo's flaxen hair.
and you wish for a lover.
fated together
as achilles was with
The weeping willow shimmers, the water droplets gleaming in her sunlit hair.
A dryad floats above her, in the air.
They unify, becoming one.
In Summer, the Willow cries with joy, enjoying the sun.
Congratulations to our Winter 2026 Art Contest award winners! Sixty-five pieces were submitted to the contest, and YWP judges were hard-pressed to select just three winners — so they chose five!
Visual Art
Deadline
If you were to create your own country, what would it look like? Draw a map of it. Is it just humans, or are there magical/mythical beings as well?
Visual Art
Deadline
Is the snow starting to melt? Photograph and document the changes you can see in nature, capturing spring’s arrival at its earliest.
Visual Art
Deadline
Using your preferred medium, create an image of a yellow flower with at least one other element, such as a red ladybug, a green grasshopper, a blue dragonfly, or ...?
Writing
In winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, this author was honored for his "novels of great emotional force," including "The Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go."
Visual Art
What does peace look like? In the medium of your choice, in whatever way you wish to convey it, picture peace.
Writing
Who is your hero and why?
Poetry from YWP's Tomorrow Project is being featured around the state this spring as part of Vermont Humanities' series. Next stop: Essex Junction, March 14
Congratulations to The Tomorrow Project's monthly award winners! February's award goes to Creativity641, 14, of Vermont for the poem, "Finding Hope."
Poems from YWP's Tomorrow Project are featured Feb. 19 in a Vermont Humanities' presentation, "A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted."
