Can poetry bring your manuscripts to life?
Young People’s Poet Laureate (2017-2019) and award-winning Margarita Engle shares how poetry is a musical language and how poetic devices can help create the rhythm and rhyme needed for a lyrical read-aloud experience. She’ll discuss the writing process and the perseverance needed to get a picture book published.
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"Margarita, there is so much to enjoy, learn, and celebrate in your work. I look forward to this journey of discovery as I read and contemplate them…one by one. Thank you so much!"
- Gigi Matlack
"This has been illuminating, inspiring, and wonderful in every way. I am in awe of A LIGHT FOR ALL."
- Judy Cheek
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Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, memoirs, and picture books, including The Surrender Tree, All the Way to Havana, Bravo!, Drum Dream Girl, and Dancing Hands. Awards include a Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré Medals, Golden Kite Award, Walter Honor, Jane Addams Award, PEN U.S.A., and NSK Neustadt Prize, among others. Margarita served as the national 2017-2019 Young People’s Poet Laureate. Recent young adult verse novels include Wings in the Wild and Wild Dreamers. Recent picture books include Water Day and The Sculptors of Light.
Margarita was born in Los Angeles, but developed a deep attachment to her mother’s homeland during childhood summers with relatives on the island. She studied agronomy and botany along with creative writing, and now lives in central California.
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