Live performance of Poet

Get ready to fall in love with this incredible novel in verse! Hear award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo introduce her flamboyant beginnings and explain what inspired her to tell Xiomara's story. Fall in love with his words and prepare to fall in love with his book too.

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Faced with a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to remain silent.

Xiomara Batista feels ignored and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Since her body became bent, she has learned to let her fists and her ferocity speak.

But Xiomara has a lot to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers, especially after she develops feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman , that she likes. the family will never know.

With Mami's determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the Church, Xiomara realizes that it is best to keep her thoughts to herself. So when she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she doesn't know how she could attend without her mom knowing. But she still can't stop thinking about performing his poems.

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