Recently, I decided to submit a poem I wrote to a start-up literary magazine by the name of Little Room. It was created by Ohio University Creative Writing student Nathan Boley as one of his senior projects. The idea started as a simple Tumblr page [...]

By Maggy Liu

The sun reared its blinding head early this year, making the students squint and seek shade under the faded umbrellas of the plastic lunch tables. Chemistry worksheets, pencils and pens, erasers and rulers lay scattered while they swear and graph lab results.

A band kid screams, disturbing the peace [...]

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been following the terrific discussion threading through YARN’s blogs and readers’ comments about the “adult” voice in YA literature. Our editors and reader-contributors have been trying to define what constitutes “adult” from both a reader’s and writer’s perspective, and I’ve particularly enjoyed the analysis of writing strategies and styles that [...]

By Joel Walton

Boom

From separate blankets
we watch weeping willows
burst and bloom in the air.

July explosions:

sky fire
easing the darkness
three seconds at a time. [...]

For me, the highest praise for any notion is when it forces you to come back, analyze it, break it apart, and put it all back together again and again. The question and my previous blog “Where Are All the Young ‘Adults?’” is this kind of idea. I thought I would be completely off about [...]