The Poet X Audiobook (Free)

Don’t miss this acclaimed audiobook, go through by the author-winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award champion!

The Poet X can be the winner from the National Reserve Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Prize.

Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds can fall hard because of this astonishing NY Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who also tells her about The Poet X tale with blazing terms and powerful truth.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she’s learned to allow her fists and her fierceness perform the talking.

But Xiomara has plenty she wants to mention, and she pours all her stress and passion onto the web pages of a leather notebook, reciting what to herself like prayers-especially after she catches emotions for a young man in her bio course named Aman, who her family members can never know about.

With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws and regulations of the church, Xiomara realizes that her thoughts are best kept to herself. Therefore when she actually is invited to join her school’s slam poetry membership, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about executing her poems.

Because when confronted with a world that might not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.

“Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” -Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation

“A remarkably potent debut.” -Jason Reynolds, author of the National Reserve Award Finalist Ghost

“Acevedo provides amplified the voices of young ladies en un barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” -Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street