The Poet X – WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019. Элизабет Асеведо

How I Feel about Attention

       Games

       After

       Okay?

       On Sunday

       During Communion

       Church Mass

       Not Even Close to Haikus

       Holy Water

       People Say

       On Papi

       All Over a Damn Wafer

       The Flyer

       After the Buzz Dies Down

       Aman

       Whispering with Caridad Later That Day

       What Twin Be Knowing

       Sharing

       Questions for Ms. Galiano

       Spoken Word

       Wait—

       Holding a Poem in the Body

       J. Cole vs. Kendrick Lamar

       Asylum

       What I Tell Aman:

       Dreaming of Him Tonight

       The Thing about Dreams

       Date

       Mami’s Dating Rules

       Clarification on Dating Rules

       Feeling Myself

       PART II: And the Word Was Made Flesh

       Smoke Parks

       I Decided a Long Time Ago

       Why Twin Is a Terrible Twin

       Why Twin Is a Terrible Twin, for Real

       Why Twin Is a Terrible Twin (Last and Most Important Reason)

       But Why Twin Is Still the Only Boy I’ll Ever Love

       Communication

       About A

       Catching Feelings

       Notes with Aman

       What I Didn’t Say to Caridad in Confirmation Class

       Lectures

       Ms. Galiano’s Sticky Note on Top of Assignment 1

       Sometimes Someone Says Something

       Listening

       Mother Business

       And Then He Does

       Warmth

       The Next Couple of Weeks

       Eve,

       “I Think the Story of Genesis Is Mad Stupid”

       As We Are Packing to Leave

       Father Sean

       Answers

       Rough Draft Assignment 2—Last Paragraphs of My Biography

       Final Draft of Assignment 2 (What I Actually Turn In)

       Hands

       Fingers

       Talking Church

       Swoon

       Telephone

       Over Breakfast

       Angry Cat, Happy X

       About Being in Like

       Music

       Ring the Alarm

       The Day

       Wants

       At My Train Stop

       What I Don’t Tell Aman

       Kiss Stamps

       The Last Fifteen-Year-Old

       Concerns

       What Twin Knows

       Hanging Over My Head

       Friday

       Black & Blue

       Tight

       Excuses

       Costume Ready

       Reuben’s House Party

       One Dance

       Stoop-Sitting . . . with Aman

       Convos with Caridad

       Braiding

       Fights

       Scrapping

       What We Don’t Say

       Gay

       Feeling Off When Twin Is Mad

       Rough Draft of Assignment 3—Describe someone you consider misunderstood by society.

       Final Draft of Assignment 3 (What I Actually Turn In)

       Announcements

       Ice-Skating

       Until