Challenges

YWP’s hub of inspiration: All our challenges are here!

Weekly

  • Visual Art

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    Tree

    Do you have a favorite tree? A lone pine? A shady maple? A bent, old apple tree? Share photos!

  • Writing

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    Music

    How does your favorite music help to shape your everyday life? Can you describe its impact?

  • Writing

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    Bored?

    Share your personal cure for boredom.

Opinion & Commentary

  • Writing

    Summer Memory

    Share a summertime memory in poetry or prose. A favorite place, a funny experience, a realization, insight, inspiration, or something that just says summer to you.

  • Writing

    Leadership on the Left

    Resistance to 'crisis:' Sen. Cory Booker spoke out against the Trump administration at a marathon speech of more than 25 hours on the Senate floor. This follows the "Fight Oligarchy" tour of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Great Artists

  • Visual Art

    Jeffrey Gibson

    Native American artist combines an abundance of color with messages of freedom, human rights, and struggle.

  • Visual Art

    Jenny Holzer

    This neo-conceptual artist's "Truisms," shown here in a 1982 Times Square exhibit, still resonates today.

  • Visual Art

    Tomokazu Matsuyama

    Tomokazu Matsuyama combines Eastern and Western art history, pop culture, graffiti, and more to create his magical, mystical paintings and sculptures.

Great Writers

  • Writing

    Rachel Carson

    This pioneering conservationist is considered one of the finest and most influential writers of the environmental movement.

     

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    James Baldwin

    The words of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin are as relevant to America today as they were during his lifetime.

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