Odes of Us

This is a book of poetry by Boston-area teen poets edited by two Boston area poets. All the writers in the book are BIPOC.Flip through the pages of poems written by Boston-area young people. Brave potentially overlooked brilliant wordsmiths who reveal what is on their minds and in their souls.There is beauty in these pages. Fierceness.Edgy moments.Love.Contempt.Admiration.Some rage here and there sometimes hidden behind a metaphor sometimes not.Mostly stuff you either didnt know about or stuff you knew and forgot.These kids didnt have to write these poems they chose to. They didnt have to stick with this project over the course of more than a year either.Some of them are in college now.Some of them are still in high school.None of them wrote specifically about the pandemic but it hovers in the background.All of them wrote with their hearts.