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Elizabeth Acevedo

Elizabeth Acevedo is a writer of young adult fiction, best known for her novel in verse, The Poet X.

Acevedo is the only daughter of Dominican immigrants and was raised in New York City; she identifies as Afro-Latina. She loved poetry and hip-hop from an early age, and began performing in her local community at age fourteen. She told the Smithsonian, “My neighborhood, ‘Harlem Adjacent’ as I like to call it, was predominantly black and Latino. People from all over the Caribbean. I grew up in a...

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Elizabeth Acevedo Essays

Elizabeth Acevedo’s Ode to Adolescent Power: Culture, Conflict, and Reassurance in The Poet X Isabel Acedo College

The Poet X

Adolescence alone, as a transitional period from child to adult, marks a challenging time in an individual’s life. Often times, factors outside the mind and body seem to exist solely to aggravate this tremulous, question-filled period. Poet X’s...

Discovering Self Worth through Spoken Word in "The Poet X" Olivia F. Vega 11th Grade

The Poet X

In Elizabeth Acevedo’s young adult novel, The Poet X, fifteen-year old Dominican-American Xiomara Batista describes her aspirations and personal life experiences in the form of poetic verse. Through her narration the reader learns that Xiomara’s...