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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Kwame Alexander (Poet - activist) : winner of Newberry Medal - THE CROSSOVER (Houghton Mifflin) - twins who are obsessed with Basketball

Alexander believes that poetry can change the world, and he uses it to inspire and empower young people through his Book-in-a-Day literacy program which has created more than 3,000 student authors at 69 schools across the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. A regular speaker and workshop presenter at conferences in the U.S., he also travels the world planting seeds of literary love (Brazil, Italy, France, and Turkey). from his web HQ -- Book-in-a-Day dot-org :
http://bookinaday.org/index.php?page=about&family=Kwame

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