Poems, poems, and more poems. (With a letter or ten thrown in for good measure). Silly poems about corn and cinnamon rolls. Serious poems about equality, hijabs, and new starts. This moving anthology has it all and so much more.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “Young Authors Book Project presents, AND SOMETIMES THE HOPE CARRIED ME - A Year of Poems Across the Distance. Written by eighth graders at Olmsted Academy South in Louisville, Kentucky. This anthology shares poems on home, food, identity, place, distance, and connection. Many of the offerings are epistolary poems - letters to places that writers longed for during the pandemic and letters from places where they found solace. "These pieces show the resilience these young women possess. The fierce determination to do better, be better, and demand better for our society," - Jennifer Wade Hesse, partner teacher at Fredrick Law Olmsted Academy South.”