I Really Need You to Hear This

In Kim Bearden’s first poetry collection, I Really Need You to Hear This, young voices emerge in verse, documenting–tentatively at times, and at other times boldly–the joys, challenges, fears, frustrations, hesitations, and comforts of growing up in today’s world. Many poems are situated in the classroom, with their young narrators reflecting on how the adults around them are struggling to see and...