“It's like you've finally found your home and you know it'll always be there,” my friend’s older sister said, not bothering to look away from the passing fields outside the car window. I wanted to respond that my home is my best friend.
i don't know who i am
nor do i think i ever will
but
i want to be so much
i want to be a poet,
carefully nurturing
then raising and sharing,
the sustenance of the soul.
because i was exhausted and cranky
and it was too late in the week to be walking home
and because texas was threatening to rain all over us, especially me.
Poems from YWP's Tomorrow Project are featured this week in a Vermont Humanities' presentation, "A Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted."
Visual Art
Deadline
Using the provided image, recreate your own version of the orchid.
Writing
Deadline
Do you go skiing or snowboarding? Write about how it feels to go hurtling down a snowy slope.
Writing
Deadline
Look around at the objects surrounding you. If there were thought bubbles coming out of them, what might they be thinking? Write a dialogue of these objects speaking to each other.
Visual Art
Deadline
With your artist's eye, observe, interpret, and create. Choose a subject — an everyday object, a person, a landscape — and give yourself time and space to study it. Use the medium of your choice to convey the subject the way you uniquely see it.
Writing
Who are you, and why are you here?
Writing
Share your thoughts about the Buddhist monks who walked from Texas to Washington — 2,300 miles over 108 days — to raise awareness about peace and compassion.
Thank you to everyone who donated so generously to our Annual Appeal, and for the messages of support and encouragement for the YWP community, such as this one: "We're sending you mountains of strength and abundant appreciation for everything!"
Congratulations to Goldenrose, the January 2026 award winner in YWP's monthly Tomorrow Project contest!
Vermont writers: You could become the 2026 Vermont Youth Poet Laureate!
