The Lerner Podcast

Meet a Poet from The Mistakes That Made Us - Margarita Engle

Lerner Books Season 1 Episode 102

 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 Margarita Engle. Margarita Engle is the Cuban-American author of many verse novels, memoirs, and picture books, including The Surrender Tree, Enchanted Air, Drum Dream Girl, and Dancing Hands. She served as the national Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019. www.margaritaengle.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. https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/24315