by Kasie Griffitts | Sep 11, 2022 | Media, News
“Good bruhs, baddies, and beloveds: I’ve just been named by the Poetry Foundation as the Young People’s Poet Laureate for 2022-2024. I am too amped to promote poetry to children and their families, and to devote myself to the vision I have of ensuring poetry...
by Kasie Griffitts | Jun 26, 2022 | Media, News
‘Some people tell me to fix my hair,’ Elizabeth Acevedo gives poetic...
by Kasie Griffitts | Apr 21, 2022 | Media, News, Updates
by Wadzanai Mhute for Oprah Daily “They call them wild curls I call them breathing Ancestors spiraling” Watch Elizabeth read from her visual poem “Inheritance” here.
by Kasie Griffitts | Feb 13, 2022 | Awards
The Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, presented annually by ALAN, is an award in the United States for a book that exemplifies literary excellence, widespread appeal, and a positive approach to life in young adult literature. Named for Amelia Elizabeth Walden who was a...
by Kasie Griffitts | Jan 30, 2022 | Media, News, Updates
“This novel has been humming underneath my skin for close to a decade and I’m delighted to share it with the world. Of all the places that could have helped usher it into being, it feels auspicious the manuscript landed in the careful hands of Ecco and my...
