Teens
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Featured Writing Activity
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Learning PromptToday’s prompt is the opposite of a spelling bee. We’ll look at poems wherein the poet intentionally gets standard English spelling or grammar wrong. They might do this in order...
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Glossary Term
Related to acrostic, a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet.
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Browse essays, monthly book picks, and other content by the Young People’s Poet Laureate, Elizabeth Acevedo.
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Book PickPicked By Elizabeth Acevedo September 2023
Plantains and Our Becoming, a coming-of-age memoir in poetry, is a self-described collection centered on love. When I first read this collection,...
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poemBy Louis MacNeiceThe room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window wasSpawning snow and pink roses against itSoundlessly collateral and incompatible:World is suddener than we fancy it.World is crazier and more of it than we think,Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portionA tangerine...
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poemBy Kevin YoungPraise the restless bedsPraise the beds that do not adjustthat won't lift the head to feedor lower for shotsor bloodor raise to watch the tinny TVPraise the hotel TV that won't quitits murmur & hollerPraise...
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Watch & Listen
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VideoFrom Ours Poetica
Elizabeth Acevedo (she/her/hers) reads the poem "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton.
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AudioFrom VS January 2023
On this week’s episode, Brittany and Ajanae continue their mini tour of the South in Houston, Texas. Next, they talk with Texas Poet Laureate Lupe Mendez about familial responsibility, masculinity,...
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