Remember When: A Poetry Anthology of Childhood & Memory

Childhood stays with us in ways we do not always expect.

This anthology from the Cumberland Mountains Authors' Guild gathers poems centered on nostalgia, memory, and the lasting shape of childhood. Across these pages, writers return to the people, places, objects, and moments that made them who they are. Some poems are warm and joyful, filled with toy boxes, popsicles, pillow forts, church pews, and backyard worlds. Others move through harder memories of loss, silence, fear, and growing up too soon.

Together, these poems offer an honest and heartfelt look at what it means to remember. They show that nostalgia is not just sweetness. It is love, grief, wonder, hurt, resilience, and the quiet way the past continues to live within us.

Tender, reflective, and deeply personal, this collection is for anyone who has ever looked back and found that childhood was both more beautiful and more complicated than they once understood.