Borrow to Make With Elizabeth Acevedo

First Draft Episode #256: Elizabeth Acevedo

Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet
X, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s
Literature, the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult
Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook
Award. She is also the author of With the Fire on High and Clap
When You Land, out now!


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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




The Nuyorican Poets Cafe




A handful of Elizabeth’s viral poems




Anna Deavere Smith and Sarah Jones are both poets who had one
woman shows, which inspired Elizabeth in college




Nikki Giovanni, Tupac, Lucille Clifton were some poets who
shaped Elizabeth




Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, I Hadn’t
Meant to Tell You This, and Red At the Bone




Walter Dean Myers, author of Monster, Scorpions, and dozens
more books




Julia Alvarez, author of Before We Were Free, Return to
Sender, and more




Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, Woman
Hollering Creek and many more




Phil Bildner, author of High Five For Glenn Burke, and
Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New
Orleans




Angela Johnson’s Coretta Scott King-winning The First Part
Last was dedicated to Elizabeth Acevedo





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