In honor of World Poetry Day, YARN has created an invitational poetry event called “Measuring the World: The Geography of Poetry.”

YARN invites poets from all over the world to submit poems inspired by a common writing prompt on global themes. The chosen poems will be published on YARN on World Poetry Day, March 21, 2012.

When I was a teen in the 80s, I subscribed to Seventeen magazine (didn’t every girl?) but I really spent my time reading agricultural reports, learning how to vaccinate sheep rather than apply mascara. I was a 4-H member. Not because I lived on a farm. I lived in the tidy suburbs of Silicon Valley. [...]

When she was little, Jennifer Donnelly never wanted to go to Disneyland. Instead, she wanted to step back in time and live in history. Since scientists haven’t figured out how to travel through time just yet, Jennifer has decided to–lucky for us! [...]

OMG, this just in, January 23: John Corey Whaley has won BOTH the Printz AND the Morris Awards (YALSA’s highest honors) for his first novel, “Where Things Come Back.” Whew. And YARN is the only place you can read his “Random Word Challenge” poetry [...]

SPOILER ALERT: If you have not seen all three of the original Star Wars movies, or the Harry Potter movies/books, there are spoilers below.

Between Christmas and New Year’s, my husband and I embarked on a Star Wars Trilogy viewing. The first three movies, mind you–Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi [...]

By Stephen G. Eoannou

I stood outside the pool crouched forward, thin arms and skinny legs spread wide to cover as much wall as possible, my pubescent balls dangling like a target, waiting for the water polo game to begin. I don’t know why we swam naked, but I suspect it was a way that Mr. Jackson, [...]