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June 3, 2015 - Jacqueline Woodson Named Young People’s Poet Laureate : The Poetry Foundation

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A wonderful new honor for our recent National Book Award Winner!

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The Work To Be Done event, a celebration of literary icon Walter Dean Myers, was organized by his son Christopher Myers and held at Symphony Space in uptown Manhattan on March 8th. Not only were kind words said about Walter and the inspiration he had on others but how his work extends to a whole community that didn’t see themselves. 

"My father told me his voice saved him, that his writing saved him," said Christopher. And in many ways his work has saved many others. Thank you Walter Dean Myers for all you’ve done and contributed through your writing and presence. And thanks to Christopher and everyone who participated and attended for a wonderful day to remember Walter.

(photos from top to bottom: Photo of Walter Dean Myers; Christopher Myers; Jason Reynolds; Eisa Davis; Jacqueline Woodson; Helga Davis; Brian Selznick; WNDB team member Jennifer Baker, Christopher Myers, and WNDB team member Dhonielle Clayton.)

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Congratulations on a wonderful evening!

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weneeddiversebooks: “A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of Walter Dean Myers, “Work to be Done” in NYC at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway) on March 8th from 5-7pm. Speakers for this event include: Christopher Myers, Brian Selznick, Jacqueline Woodson,...
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A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of Walter Dean Myers, “Work to be Done” in NYC at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway) on March 8th from 5-7pm. 

Speakers for this event include: Christopher Myers, Brian Selznick, Jacqueline Woodson, Wah Ming Chang, Jason Reynolds, Emily Raboteau and many many more!

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National Book Award Winners Jacqueline Woodson and Phil Klay know what they’ll be reading tomorrow for National Readathon Day. Do you?

If you’re looking to finish a book in a single sitting, here are lists of short books recommended by The Huffington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Electric Literature, and National Readathon Day sponsor GoodReads. And we’ve also collected some of our reading lists of National Book Award Winning books here.

Please support our education programs by donating and pledging to read for tomorrow’s Readathon, and share your experiences on social media with the #TimeToRead hashtag!

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jacquelinewoodson: “ National Readathon Day - January 24th. What will you be reading? ” Jackie Woodson, author of National Book Award Winner Brown Girl Dreaming, is supporting National Readathon Day— January 24, from noon to 4pm, folks across the...
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National Readathon Day - January 24th. What will you be reading?

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Jackie Woodson, author of National Book Award Winner Brown Girl Dreaming, is supporting National Readathon Day— January 24, from noon to 4pm, folks across the country will be reading to show their love of literature and help promote a lifelong love of reading in America. 

Learn more here!

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Close Encounters of a Literary Kind

Bring hundreds of writers and  book people  together to celebrate the recipients of the country’s most prestigious literary award and there are bound to be some intriguing pairings of old friends, new acquaintances, and mutual admirers. 

From Top to Bottom:

Elliot Ackerman (left), former U.S. Marine and author of the forthcoming Green on Blue, with National Book Award Winner Phil Klay.

Emily St. John Mandel, author of National Book Award Finalist Station Eleven, meets– for the first time– Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014 Medalist for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

(Left photograph) Deborah Wiles (left), author of National Book Award Finalist Revolution with National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson at the National Book Awards Teen Press Conference.

(Right photograph): Fellow New Yorker contributors and National Book Award Finalists Roz Chast and John Lahr.

Science writer Jonathan Weiner (left), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, converses with Edward O. Wilson, author of the National Book Award Finalist The Meaning of Life.

(Left photograph): National Book Award Winner Louise Glück with fellow poet,  Farrar, Straus & Giroux publisher and president Jonathan Galassi. (Photo credit: Robin Platzer/Twin Images)

(Right photograph): Claudia Rankine (left), author of the National Book Award Finalist poetry collection, Citizen: An American Lyric and Fanny Howe, author of the National Book Award Finalist poetry collection, Second Childhood. Both poets are published by Graywolf Press.

John Corey Whaley (left), a NBF 5 Under 35 Honoree and author of the National Book Award Finalist Noggin and Daniel Handler, who hosted the ceremony.

At the celebration of the 2014 5 Under 35 Honorees, 1999 National Book Award Finalist Andre Dubus III meets the celebration host Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, band leader of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and author of Mo'Meta Blues.

Seated at the National Book Award Ceremony Dinner (from left), Theodore Downes-Le Guin, DCAL Medalist Ursula K. Le Guin, and Neil Gaiman, who presented the DCAL Medal to Le Guin.

All photographs are the work of Beowulf Sheehan, with the noted exception of the photograph of Louise Glück and Jonathan Galassi.

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Readers are hungry to have their stories in the world, to see mirrors of themselves if the stories are about people like them and to have windows if the stories are about people who have been historically absent in literature. People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability. Stories that finally reflect (and are well written) can’t do anything other than resonate.
Jacqueline Woodson, 2014 National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature, in an interview with Publishers Weekly
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“ “In a book I found at the library, a camp song about a watermelon vine was illustrated with caricatures of sleepy-looking black people sitting by trees, grinning and eating watermelon. Slowly, the hideousness of the stereotype began to sink in. In...

“In a book I found at the library, a camp song about a watermelon vine was illustrated with caricatures of sleepy-looking black people sitting by trees, grinning and eating watermelon. Slowly, the hideousness of the stereotype began to sink in. In the eyes of those who told and repeated the jokes, we were shuffling, googly-eyed and lesser than.

Perhaps my allergy was actually a deep physical revulsion that came from the psychological impression and weight of the association. Whatever it was, I could no longer eat watermelon.”

The Pain of the Watermelon Joke is a powerful op-ed essay in today’s New York Times from Jacqueline Woodson. Her memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.

Image credit: Eleanor Taylor

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