There is a lot to love in this book: carefully curated poetry, beautiful art, topics that will solidly resonate. My one qualm is the explanations at the beginning of the different subsections as they talk down to the reader by giving didact, interpretative overviews of the poems. These sections take away from the beauty and openness of the medium. Besides that, this book can be a great addition to poetry collections.

This is a collection of empowering, affirming, caring poems.  It brings together works from modern poets that speak to teen girls of today. I appreciate the way Whitney divides the poems into moods to help the reader find just the right salve for their emotional state.
I am looking forward to getting this for our high school library and sharing many of the poems during our April poetry month, when we do 'poem in my pocket' canvassing at our school.

I really liked this collection!

I don't normally like poetry, but when I saw this title to request I did it right away-- female and queer authors, full of empowerment, for young women? Count me in!

I loved a lot of poems but also didn't like a whole other lot. I think a lot of them were rooted in its authors and therefore extremely personal, so I couldn't fully comprehend them. I would read and understand, but didn't connect at all. 

It also has a lot formats on poetry, from typical, structured poetry to Instagram, prose-alike, punctuation mark-less poetry. I bet any reader would love many of these poems and their structure and rhythm.

I am not fan of poems, but if you are you will like it a lot. You do not have to be everything. You are perfect the way you are. love everything about yourself.

This is a lovely poetry anthology. Very well put together. It really is inspiring to all the teen girls out there who need something like this.

This is an excellent collection of empowering poems for women to read as they are growing up and going through life's challenges. I wish that I had a book like this when I was younger, especially as a teenager, to remind me that it's okay to be unique and that sadness I feel will not last forever. 

The poems are split into different categories for different moods. I truly felt moved and effected by a handful of these, and re-read those over and over to fully understand the impact that it was having on me as I read it. The illustrations that go along with these poems were an added bonus. They were bright and colorful, reminding you that life can be both those things. 

There are such great female authors who contributed to this anthology, and I loved that. It was empowering to me, plus it was women writing about these experiences, who understand what these experiences are like for us. 

I feel like this is a book that should be required reading for females in high school.