Today's poem is "For the Poet Who Told Me Rats Aren't Noble Enough Creatures for a Poem"
from Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths
Elizabeth Acevedo
holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion as well as a Cave Canem Fellow, CantoMundo Fellow, and participant of the Callaloo Writer’s Workshop. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Review, Callaloo, Puerto Del Sol, Poet Lore, and Beltway Quarterly. Her manuscript, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths, was a finalist for the YesYes Books Vinyl 45 Contest and released in October 2016, and her full-length collection, Medusa Reads La Negra’s Palm, was the winner of the 2016 Berkshire Prize and will be published by Tupelo Press. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Books by Elizabeth Acevedo:
Other poems on the web by Elizabeth Acevedo:
"Stranger Tells Me My Body Be a Temple"
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