The Club will read and discuss POET X B by Elizabeth Acevedo.

Magnificently crafted, Elizabeth Acevedo’s bildungsroman in verse is a stunning account of a teen girl’s path to poetry. Sophomore Xiomara Batista is simultaneously invisible and hyper visible at home, school, and in her largely Dominican community in Harlem and her inner life sensitively grapples with the projections from her community and the expectations of her strict, religious mother. Acevedo’s poetry is skillfully and gorgeously crafted, each verse can be savored on its own, but together they create a portrait of a young poet sure to resonate with readers long after the book’s end.