About  Poems for Middles

Poems for Middles is an author-illustrated series-in-the-making of poetry for children in the turbulent-sweet middle school years focusing on identity, change, and belonging. The series hopes to illuminate the wholistic depth of humanity children experience—from glee to anger, humor to sorrow, confidence to anxiety—believing poetry can uniquely express the way people think and feel. The poems dance across universal middle grade thresholds with wonder, humor, reality, and reflection.

Poems for Middles is gender flexible—the poems are voiced by ungendered narrators—non-binary, LGBTQ, male, female—and are inclusive of all beliefs, ethnicities, nationalities, and backgrounds.