ODES OF US

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>There is beauty in these pages. </p><p>Fierceness.</p><p>Edgy moments.</p><p>Love.</p><p>Contempt.</p><p>Admiration.</p><p>Some rage here and there sometimes hidden behind a metaphor sometimes not.</p><p>Mostly stuff you either didn't know about or stuff you knew and forgot.</p><p>These kids didn't have to write these poems they chose to. They didn't have to stick with this project over the course of more than a year either.</p><p>Some of them are in college now.</p><p>Some of them are still in high school.</p><p>None of them wrote specifically about the pandemic but it hovers in the background.</p><p>All of them wrote with their hearts.</p>