Our OC Youth Poet Laureate, Tina Mai, is culminating her term with a Community Poem for-and-by youth 13-21 years old around the world. Submissions will be accepted from April 8th through June 15th and released to the public on August 15th to celebrate the incoming 2022-2023 OC Youth Poet Laureate.
Submission guidelines: The theme is "Home." Write no more than 16 words that reflect on the idea of home; it can be a literal phrase or metaphorical; it doesn't have to be an actual description of your living environment, but it can be or it can also be of something that makes you feel at home.
Submit 1 stanza, consisting of no more than 2 lines, not to exceed 16 words total. If submitting in another language, please provide an English translation to help us curate the section into the larger poem. For more info or questions, email
libromobile@gmail.com.