Grouped into categories like See, Listen, Understand, and Think, this moving anthology features poetry and narratives from those in elementary and high school alike. Read poetry on music, oceans, metaphors, and love.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “In This Moment and the Next, a literary anthology of stories and poems by forty-three Maine authors, you’ll find writing about an ‘unfortunate dragonfly,’ tiny creatures in red hats, a school for clouds, metaphorical peaches, a sister’s shoes, a cow named Horse, a snowman in a snowsuit, insomnia, and an unsolvable Rubik’s cube. The pieces will take you along journeys into outer space, through unknown jungles, to the middle of the ocean; through illness, loss and grief, back to New York City in 1985, and even into the future. The writing in this book is a call to memory, joy, connection, and action, offering us explorations of family, growing up, transformation, identity, racism, learning, and the always-unfinished understanding of what it takes to be seen. This Moment and the Next asks us to remember that when we give ourselves time to see, listen, understand, and think, the present is potent with possibilities.”