{"id":55856,"date":"2018-03-10T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55856"},"modified":"2018-03-10T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T02:38:29","slug":"the-poet-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55856","title":{"rendered":"The Poet X"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Poet X<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

HarperTeen<\/a>
\n2018-03-06
\n368 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780062662804
\nE-book ISBN: 9780062662828<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Acevedo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson<\/a>, Meg Medina<\/a>, and Jason Reynolds<\/a> will fall hard for this astonishing #ownvoices<\/a> novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet<\/a>, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem<\/a> neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.<\/p>\n

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers\u2014especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.<\/p>\n

With Mami\u2019s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school\u2019s slam poetry club, she doesn\u2019t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can\u2019t stop thinking about performing her poems.<\/p>\n

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing #ownvoices novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14646,8,15,20],"tags":[28126,28125],"class_list":["post-55856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-elizabeth-acevedo","tag-harperteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55859,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55856\/revisions\/55859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}