Who wrote The Poet X?

Elizabeth Acevedo wrote The Poet X, first published in 2018. It is a work of literary fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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Essential Read

The Poet X

Name: The Poet X
Author: Elizabeth Acevedo

by Elizabeth Acevedo · 2018

Literary Fiction · ranked #239 in category

Winner · The Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2019

Xiomara Batista, a Dominican-American teenager in Harlem, channels her anger, faith and desire into a notebook of poems she's afraid to share — until a school slam poetry club gives her a place to perform. Acevedo's novel-in-verse won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Carnegie Medal and the Printz Award — a rare triple.

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