Poetry

An exploration of ghostly subway rides during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Da Bronx is a piece that depicts where I am from. A place near and dear to my heart.

This piece talks about my relationships with nature and my parents in order to explore my feelings toward living in New York City.

A look into 2020 through the diverse eyes of interviewees from New York City. These interviewees describe their thoughts and experiences living through the pandemic.

We wrote two poems about our relationship to our residing borough, Queens. (Lilly is a lifelong native and Toni moved to Astoria five years ago.)

Shuttling between two neighborhoods, Flushing, Queens, and the Upper East Side, this story follows a girl’s journey to school. Along her commute, she discovers her identity and the meaning of hard work and perseverance.

I was inspired to write this piece in December 2020 when I was absorbing the Christmas spirit in a shut-down New York City.

A poem about our two neighborhoods in New York and our experiences inhabiting the city in our own particular lenses.

Two women, quarantining apart for a year, exchange disposable cameras and the stories of lost-and-found parts of their worlds, eight miles apart. These are the stories they uncovered.

A kind-hearted eccentric gentleman is hoodwinked by his naive gesture and a glittering gem in a dusty New York shop.

The Princess of New York City struggles to literally find her voice and come into her inheritance—a stutter, and the power to speak.

I first started out with just a rush of memories of the garden, then I organized those memories into seasons and turned five pages from my collage journal into representations of those seasons and memories.

I wrote this poem about my favorite park. It’s a big milestone in my life because I went to this park as a child.

In the socially distanced era of six feet apart, two Brooklyn-based writers celebrate the beauty and history of their everyday worlds in this visual diary.

No matter the obstacle, if you believe in yourself and focus on where you want to be, you will be the rose that overcame all odds.

There’s an untold story behind every woman.

Felicity Quinton never would have thought babysitting her sister’s children would result in a wild goose chase around New York City. But, life is full of surprises (tall, dark, and handsome surprises).

An evocative piece of flash fiction meant to draw the reader into the author’s encounter with a so-called subway creep.

I was scrolling on social media and my eye caught a rather shocking headline. This poem is about the article I read and how very serious news is made palatable.

This is a poem about where I’m from as a 16-year-old, born and raised in Queens, New York in a small family of four.

WNYC Transmitter Park is a staple afternoon park for many, located at the bank of the East River. When observing the park and Greenpoint overall, I realize just how much it’s changed.

A tale of an immigrant’s adjustment to New York City and the impacts of childhood and cultural board games.

The city is full of sights and sounds, so maybe it is time we look around. On a journey in hopes to make others notice, I present to you my little green notebook.

Growing up as a daughter of resturant owners, I explore the shame of not having parents that could dedicate their time to me and the realization of the sacrifices they made for my happiness.

A love story that begins in an impossible subway scenario that ends with a sweet surprise.

This piece is at heart a study of me, a view from inside my room and inside my mind.

My goal for the summer of 2022 was to ride a bike in Manhattan’s Midtown/Lower East Side. While writing other pieces, I was inspired to replenish a childhood dream I did not continue.

What sacrifices did we make during the pandemic to sustain our parental relationships? What kind of person have you become since then?

New York skyscrapers are far from the sky-scraping Smoky Mountains, and in combining our stories, we shared our fierce pride for our homes and the inherent poetry there is in growing up in these places.

Lena and Courtney are both New Yorkers—but they live in different boroughs: Brooklyn and Staten Island. After a year spent on Zoom, they gave one another tours of their respective corners of the city.

吃飯 (HEK-FAN) New York is a series of video essays that follows the format of an abecedary, documenting personal stories of food and culture between a pair of friends.

You do not expect
the kindness. It comes
in splashes, like an outpour
after a long drought.