Join the PYPM family as we welcome poet & author Elizabeth Acevedo for an after-school booksigning and conversation about her new release Poet X.
ABOUT POET X:
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood, so she channels her feelings onto the pages of her leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers.
With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
Teen Vogue’s cover reveal: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/slam-poet-elizabeth-acevedo-debuts-novel-the-poet-x