by Adanilsy Polanco | Jun 21, 2023 | Media, News
Family Lore is getting all of love on the summer reading lists! The Story Exchange: Summer Reading List: 8 New Books to Keep in Your Beach Bag Shondaland: The Best Books to Read for Summer 2023 AARP: 32 of 2023’s Hot Summer Novels The Washington Post:...
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 | 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...
by Kasie Griffitts | Feb 18, 2021 | Awards, News
Clap When You Land has been added to the longlist for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie Medal – the UK’s most prestigious and oldest youth literature award. Elizabeth Acevedo won the Carnegie Medal in 2019 for The Poet X. You can read more about the award...
