Sweet, Young, & Worried

by Blythe Baird

Overview

Sweet, Young, & Worried is the highly anticipated sophomore collection by author Blythe Baird
Following her widely successful debut, Baird wastes no time as she reels in her reader with breathtaking imagery and punching narratives. With expert precision and vulnerability, Baird guides us on an expedition embracing queerness, love, loss, mental health, feminism & healing along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781638340492
Publisher:	Button Poetry
Publication date:	11/29/2022
Series:	Button Poetry
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

At only 25 years old, Blythe Baird is already one of the most recognizable and acclaimed names in spoken word poetry.

Originally from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, the viral writer has garnered international recognition for her stunning performance pieces that speak urgently and honestly about sexual assault, mental illness, eating disorder recovery, sexuality, and healing from trauma.

Baird graduated from Hamline University in 2018 with a dual degree in creative writing and women’s studies. In 2020, she became the recipient of the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Spoken Word.

Table of Contents

i To Become an Emergency

In the Shape of a Poem 1

Sad Girls Club 2

The Nights I Felt Iridescent 9

What a Body Inherits 13

Blow Pop Diet 17

How to Become a Disney Channel Original Star 19

Cast List 21

Multicolored Pills 22

Code T14.91 24

Hospital High School 26

The Scale Was the Last to Go 29

Come Home, Stockholm 30

Skinny Girl Mirage 31

I Promise 32

Guilty Bystander 33

Dress Rehearsal 34

What if I Cared for My Body 35

ii Splinters of Improvement

This Must Be Enough 39

Guilt Doesn't Live Here Anymore 40

What to Expect when You Are Not 46

The Algorithm 51

Hologram of a Nursery 54

Nightmare in which Planned Parenthood Operates Off of My Dining Room Table 57

What Would It Look hike if You Forgave Yourself? 59

Telephone 60

Show and Tell 61

Taking My Mother to a Gay Bar 62

Sleepover in a Diorama 70

A Sign She Is Trying 72

iii A Place We Haven't Been to Yet

Dome of Butterflies 77

Gem and I 78

Garden of Poetry 79

To Love an Artist 82

Belle of the Rave 83

My Power 85

Endling 86

The Most Useless Emotion 88

After the Poetry Slam Is Over 90

To Devour a Sky 92

Acknowledgements 97

Birthchart 99

About The Author 101