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Books as Mirrors and Windows: Kwame Alexander’s Identity Through Words

Books as Mirrors and Windows: Kwame Alexander’s Identity Through Words

FromFor The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast


Books as Mirrors and Windows: Kwame Alexander’s Identity Through Words

FromFor The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Our book series is in full swing, and we’re loving the conversations about reading and how words help us voice what really matters to us! This week’s guest is author, poet, and educator Kwame Alexander. And if you’ve never been into poetry, Kwame is here to change your view. He believes poetry is powerful enough to change the world, inspire our youth—even woo a spouse (He wrote his now-wife Stephanie a poem a day for a year. Let the collective swooning begin!). Kwame is the New York Times bestselling author of 28 books for children, teens, and young adults, but his path to becoming a published author wasn’t all flowers and love poems. Kwame shares how his Newbery-winning novel The Crossover faced 22 rejections before a publisher finally picked it up, and the tenacity it took to keep saying “yes” in a sea of “no’s.” Kwame reminds us that so much of our ability to develop an imagination and know our place in the world comes from the pages of a book. His love affair with words will ignite each of us to pursue stories that heal us, move us, and change us.
Released:
Sep 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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