Elizabeth Acevedo will provide a short reading from her award-winning novel-in-verse, The Poet X. The Poet X is about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. 

Xiomara Batista feels unheard in her Harlem neighborhood, so when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. But how could she ever attend without her Mami finding out?  Register