Program Type:
Book Club- Registration is required for this event.
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Program Description
Event Details
This book group is an opportunity for retirees to meet with Hotchkiss students Penelope Thornton and Chloe Ayer to discuss YA/Teen literature in the context of Martin Luther King Day. Anyone is welcome to join us.
The meeting will be in the Noble Horizons Learning Center.
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
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...So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.