nature

Poetry·Rose Torrey — A summer evening unfolds through sensory details — soft light, rushing water, owl calls, and moonlight stretching across quiet land.

Personal Narrative·Clementine Lewis — A young swimmer discovers the underwater world of a Bermuda coral reef, encountering a parrotfish that transforms her understanding of the ocean.

Poetry·Amity Doyle — A tree alone in a honeysuckle field becomes a meditation on loneliness and loss, its reaching branches mirroring human grief.

Poetry·Benjamin Feinberg — A young poet observes rivers, leaves, clouds, and birds, concluding with the hope that nature returns their love.

Poetry·Jordan Sung — Light streams through canyon rocks and trees, transforming water into emerald and creating a dance of shadows and illumination in a moss-carpeted grotto.

Poetry·Grace Zhuang — A young poet captures summer through garden growth, beach days, and songs, ending with a wistful plea for the season to remain.

Story·Allison Hansford — A lyrical catalog of a garden's inhabitants — leaves, trees, bushes, flowers, birds, and bugs — celebrates nature's overwhelming abundance and mystery.

Poetry·Ava Luangkesorn — A catalog poem assigns each punctuation mark a corresponding flower based on visual or metaphorical connections between their forms and functions.

Poetry·Hana Shqairat — Spring's arrival transforms a winter landscape as snow melts, flowers bloom, leaves sing, and the natural world awakens to renewed life.

Poetry·Iris Chalfen — A speaker watches seagulls and imagines waves from a window in Southwold, with fragmented repetitions creating a dreamlike meditation on coastal morning.