Mining for Character in Verse w. ELIZABETH ACEVEDO

Mining for Character in Verse w. ELIZABETH ACEVEDO

Elizabeth Acevedo’s new novel-in-verse, Clap When You Land, is out now from Quill Tree Books. (Bookshop) Elizabeth is the author of The Poet X—which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award—as well as With the Fire on High. She is a National Poetry Slam champion and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo lives with her partner in Washington, DC. You can find out more about her at www.acevedowrites.com.

Bonus Segment: What Makes a Good Reading Performance

Elizabeth talks about how she developed her performance style and how authors should approach reading their own work.

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