nature

Poetry·Grace Zhuang, age 6 — A delphinium searches for spring, not realizing she herself embodies spring's arrival in this brief poem about self-recognition and seasonal awakening.

Personal Narrative·Caden Wang, age 12 — Four brief meditations capture moments in different outdoor spaces — a forest path, tennis court, porch, and window view — through precise sensory observation.

Story·Myiesha Jain, age 11 — A girl climbs a hill at sunset to throw a pebble into the sky for her dead mother, then returns to an empty house and her absent father's note.

Poetry·Pei-Ying Olsen, age 9 — A mysterious sound transforms cursed grounds into a place of beauty, paralyzing yet awakening the speaker through its symphonic power.

Poetry·Peter Shuster-Raizberg, age 7 — A young poet's repetitive meditation on the strangeness and nothingness of cactuses, built through simple observations and circular phrasing.

Poetry·Peter Shuster-Raizberg, age 7 — A child's urgent poem captures the terror and escape from an erupting volcano, circling back to the image of the volcano at the center of everything.

Poetry·Peter Shuster-Raizberg, age 7 — A young poet observes the ocean's mysteries—fish, sharks, treasure—while lamenting that its population is disappearing.

Story·Oren Milgrom-Dorfman, age 12 — A girl escapes her parents on a forest hike, then later that night returns to the woods alone to weep in a moonlit clearing.

Poetry·Amity Doyle, age 11 — A year cycles through in verse, each month captured in its own stanza with sensory details of weather, nature, and seasonal rituals.

Poetry·Rainer Pasca, age 14 — A sensory-rich prose poem captures the disorienting joy of falling into snow, where time slows and the world transforms into crystal whispers and flying lights.