Youth Voices Unearthed is honored to feature the voices of Write Out authors in our Spring 2024 issue. Write Out is an afterschool program that partners with community centers across Syracuse to get youth excited about storytelling. In our writing workshops, students explore topics of self-expression and personal experience—themes that are often [...]
Haiku written on Rocky Peak Ridge in the Adirondack Mountains.
On the promise of honey.
Knowing myself is knowing the spaces I came to be and the people I have come to reflect.
I never expected beekeeping to bring forth such questions of morality and introspection.
In this new age of machines / i am the racer who drives through the sky / the comb that rakes the long hair of the prairie / and sings her a lullaby when the nights grow cold
Medical Notes for Terra Gaia. Occupation: Creator and Sustainer. Age: Unknown. Appears to be around 4.5 billion years old. Not insured.
An instruction manual for creation in the not-so-distant future.
Perhaps the most grounded animals are most linked to our own eventual and possibly post human resurgence.
In 1946, sonar detected what appeared to be the bottom of the ocean, but it was a body suspended between the surface and the seabed. The “Phantom bottom” moved up and down and was later discovered to be millions of small fish.
