Time You Let Me In

They are inspiring talented stunning remarkable wise

They are also fearless depressed hilarious impatient in love out of love pissed off

And they want you to let them in.

Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye, this poetry collection brings together twenty-six American voices under twenty-five. These young writers map border checkpoints hospital rooms Indiana cornfields and smoke-filled kitchens.

Across these pages, verses tackle Pennsylvania mill towns church fires late-night phone cards and airplane turbulence. They take notes on homeless poems at one in the morning, chalk maps over fresh street tar, and listen for sparrows from hospital beds.
Young Poets: Lauren Espinoza navigates bilingual identity in the Texas borderlands where shoppers spend pesos at Macy’s, while Gray Emerson catalogs love in an index of stolen kisses and eyelash dances.Poetry Anthology: Margaret Bashaar shares a home with an enlightened vegan cat who meditates eighteen hours a day, and Catherine Bates remembers an eight-year-old girl catching her hair on fire from a Christmas candle.YA Nonfiction: Emma Shaw Crane ducks under apartment windows during gunfire in Beirut to eat labneh with friends, and Brianne Carpenter pushes her recovering mother’s wheelchair between hospital meals of blue jello.Also by This Author: A Maze Me, 19 Varieties of Gazelle and I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?.