Margarita Engle

Cuban American author of verse novels, picture books, and memoirs. NSK Neustadt Prize, Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré Awards, Young People's Poet Laureate Emeritus.

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

Evamar just received a third starred trade review, adding Booklist to Kirkus and Publishers Weekly! I'm so incredibly grateful. ❤️📚🇨🇺🌻#Evamar @Simonteen @SSEdLib #MargaritaEngleBooks #versenovel #poetry #YAbook #LoveStories #Cubabooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@RTG_TutorGuitar Hooray! Thank you.❤️ 📚

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

Happy #WorldElephantDay! #versenovel #poetry #poesía #peace #SingingWithElephants

[National Centre ACL @NatCentAusChLit]

Just announced—Australia's Prime Minister's Awards, the short list includes 2 verse novels in the children's and two in the YA category! Truly they have come of age - Here's the details @WesteLinda https://t.co/n3hYZ5ENeH

[Linda Weste @WesteLinda]

The contributor list is extraordinary Margarita Engle Carole Boston Weatherford Rajani LaRocca Aida Salazar Chris Baron Safia Elhillo Jasmine Warga Thanhhà Lai Dean Atta Cordelia Jensen — authors whose books are taught, prizewinning, & loved by readers in the UK, AUS & the US.

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@WesteLinda Thank you for including me!

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

What are you #reading? I'm enjoying the other #verse #stories in this beautiful new #anthology that includes my long #poem called Planting Music. #poesía #LatinxBooks @aida_writes

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

Thank you for including The Surrender Tree, @SealeyChallenge! #poetry #YAbooks #versenovels #poesía #Cubabooks #LatinxBooks

[The Sealey Challenge @SealeyChallenge]

The #SealeyChallenge is for lovers of poetry of all ages! Here's 31 poetry books for K-12 students: from picture books to novels-in-verse to books and chapbooks by individual poets.

https://t.co/v16TOLpkWp

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@SealeyChallenge Thank you for including The Surrender Tree!

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

Yes, I write all my first drafts with a pen, on paper. I need the rhythmic flow of ink.

[Realistic Poetry International @RealisticPoetry]

Do poets still use notepads these days?

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@RealisticPoetry Yes, I write all my first drafts with a pen, on paper. I need the rhythmic flow of ink.

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@RealisticPoetry Evamar is a young adult verse novel about Cuban American teens on a road trip in the country of their ancestry.

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@RealisticPoetry ☕️🌻📚

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

"When we enter a library, we turn the first page of imagination."
Alberto Ríos
#poetry #library #creativity #books #reading #writingcommunity #writing #imagination

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

"Stay young always, in the theater of your mind."
Mary Oliver
from Good Morning
#poetry #hope #imagination #creativity

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@villarinobea Good luck!

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@TolulopePopoola Paraphrased from the important quote from the 1990 essay by Dr. Rudine Sims, titled Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors.

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@luke_janicki Congratulations!

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

As the @SealeyChallenge continues, I'm choosing beloved themes, such as horse poems. #SealeyChallenge #poetry #horses #reading

[Stefan Karlsson @stefkidlit]

I’m hoping to complete a #kidlit version of the @SealeyChallenge this August!

I started with this moving, funny, & heartwarming anthology edited by Irene Latham & @waterscharles.

Here’s a powerful poem I love by @margaritapoet from this collection 💜
#TheSealeyChallenge

[Margarita Engle @margaritapoet]

@stefkidlit @SealeyChallenge @waterscharles Thank you!