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Lectures, Presentations, & Author EventsProgram Description
Event Details
You’re invited to learn about the power of poetry with Elizabeth Acevedo! In this exciting author conversation and Q&A, presented in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium, Acevedo will provide a short reading from her novel-in-verse, The Poet X. The Poet X will also serve as the backdrop to this amazing chat!
About the Author
Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of numerous other titles including Family Lore; With the Fire on High, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; and Clap When You Land, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her husband.
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