The Lerner Podcast
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The Lerner Podcast
Meet a Poet from The Mistakes That Made Us - Irene Latham
In The Mistakes That Made Us, twenty brave poets share share real-life blunders they made as young people . . . and what happened next.
This episode highlights a poem from Irene Latham. Irene Latham is the author of more than a dozen current and forthcoming works of poetry, fiction, and picture books. Her work includes Charlotte Huck Honor Book and ALA Notable Children's Book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship (co-written with Charles Waters) and the Caldecott Honor Book The Cat Man of Aleppo(co-written by Karim Shamsi-Basha). In 2016 she won the ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award. Visit her at www.irenelatham.com.
The Mistakes That Made Us is a book for all who are growing and discovering and still figuring out who they are. (Which is to say everyone!)
Check out the book at lernerbooks.com.