2021 Readings by the winner and short-listed poets

Young Poet Awards

Euphemisms for Cancer

Yvanna Vien Tica Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Rachel Brooks Trumbull, Connecticut, USA November Is When I Become

Elane Kim Walnut Creek, California, USA Origami

Rhys Pearce Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK Mai ho'oka'awale (separating sickness)

Olivia Yang Charlotte, North Carolina, USA still life: quarantine