The Poet X [#Blackathon 2019]

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acemedo. What a beautiful, painful, stunning book. Yet a book where pain doesn’t always win. I was hesitant to read it at first because of it being written in blank verse. I needn’t have been. I’m embarrassed, actually, that I knew of it for so long and yet held back, and it took a readathon to get me to go ahead and give it a chance. But isn’t that why we participate in readathons? Not just to...

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