Xiomara Batista is a fifteen-year-old Dominican teenager living in Harlem who loves to write poetry.

Though she longs to share it with the world, her religious mother is only concerned with her being confirmed, which has been put off for three years.

She feels inferior to her brother, Xavier (affectionately called Twin) as he receives much praise for his work.

[2] In a Federal District Court case in North Carolina, parents asserted The Poet X was anti-Christian and violated their right to freedom of religion.

The court dismissed the case, citing the widely-held judicial principle that education is not indoctrination.