Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X was the winner of the 2018 National Book Award in America, and it’s easy to see why this powerful and unique novel stood out from the crowd. Acevedo is an ...

Our November 2020 pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour's book club with The New York Times, is Elizabeth Acevedo’s "The Poet X."… Our November 2020 pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour ...

Local independent bookstores across the U.S. are standing up against book bans by encouraging curiosity (and reading, of ...

Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound ... in designated colors and then create a work of art based on the poem. Gorman herself has praised the lesson on X. “Acevedo manages to ...

Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X is a National Book Award-winning novel-in-verse that captures the powerful voice of Xiomara Batista, an Afro-Latina teenager in Harlem. Tired of feeling unheard ...

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo will deliver two lectures ... Acevedo is the author of “The Poet X,” released in 2018, which won the National Book Award for Young People ...

COLUMBIA, MD, Aug. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Howard Community College (HCC) announced that New York Times-bestselling author of “Clap When You Land,” Elizabeth ... Acevedo will be joined by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 ... Weatherford succeeds Elizabeth Acevedo, appointed in 2022. “I have many ideas swirling around in my head,” Weatherford said during ...

In Elizabeth Acevedo’s new novel ... on High,” the writer’s second novel (after her award-winning “The Poet X”), tells the story of a teenage mom who’s an aspiring chef.

3—New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo will deliver ... as part of the fourth annual Bauder Lecture Series. Acevedo is the author of "The Poet X," released in 2018, which won ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Li-Young Lee has won a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize, and Carole Boston Weatherford has been named the new Young People's Poet Laureate, the Poetry Foundation announced ...