[Illustration: "Womane, Mother" by Evvi Tower-Pierce, YWP]

Congratulations to YWP's Evvi Tower-Pierce, 17, of East Burke, VT, whose illustration "Womane, Mother" was selected to illustrate a poem by Vermont Youth Poet Laureate Harmony Devoe on a commemorative broadside print. Evvi's award includes a $200 prize from contest organizer Sundog Poetry, a copy of the broadside, and the opportunity to learn about the printing process at the Ruth Stone House in Goshen, VT. Here is the resulting print:

Vermont Youth Poet Laureate's poem for the illustration contest:

WOMANE
By Harmony Belle Devoe

When the world ends
And falls
To pieces
What
Must
We do
To
Lift
The scraps
Like we’ve
Lifted
Each other
Like a
Child
Needs
Its mother
Like a human
Needs a home
Like
A woman
Needs her
Mother earth
Some say
We are
Abstruse
But we
Entangle
Our roots
Our mycelium
As we realize
We do not need to be him
Just her
She
You
We develop
Into womanhood
Like a tree
becoming firewood
We convene
When society
Reboots
When we are no longer machines
And find
A new route
When

The world ends
Women
Will continue
Their humanity
Because
A human
Is within you
We all are born human
But we must earn
The “e” at the end
Of “humane”