Alondra Bobadilla, 17, is named youth poet laureate

The Hyde Park resident and junior at Fenway High School, is the first youth poet laureate of Boston. In a poem about gentrification, she subsequently writes, “I hope y’all haven’t forgotten the real Boston is still here / Our voices are here and our bodies are too / I hope getting rid of us is not what you’re trying to do / ‘Cause if you get rid of us, Boston comes with us too.”