Tennessee Maria Reed My style of writing is abstract and straight forward.

Tennessee Reed

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Author Biography

Tennessee Reed began writing as a child. To date she has published 335 pages of poetry, contained in four collections. Her first poetry collection, Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books, 1988), was published when she was eleven years old.
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Influences

Ishmael Reed
Rudolfo Anaya
Anne Frank

Favorite Books

"Mixing it Up" by Ishmael Reed
"Rediscovering America" by Carla Blank
"Dog Eaters" by Jessica Hagedorn
"Alburquerque" by Rudolfo Anaya
"Breaking Away" by Kristin Lattany
"Eulogy for a Brown Angel" by Lucha Corpi
"Bones" by Fae Myenne Ng
"The Outsider" by Richard Wright
"Prospero's Daughter" by Elizabeth Nunez

Favorite Authors

Ishmael Reed, Carla Blank, Rudolfo Anaya, Jessica Hagedorn, Kristin Lattany, Lucha Corpi, Fae Myenne Ng

What I'm Reading

"Mixing It Up" by Ishmael Reed

Connections

Contacts

Jennifer Gibbons

Media

The Reeds' Trip to New York City October 6-13, 2009	The Reeds' Trip to the East Coast August/September 2009	The Reeds' Trip to New York April, 2009

Published Works


Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a Difficult Student	City Beautiful: Poems 1998-2006	Airborne Poems 1990-1996
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Articles and Stories

People with disabilities encounter many hidden barriers by tmreed31

People with disabilities encounter many hidden bar ...

THE TENNESSEE POEM by tmreed31

THE TENNESSEE POEM

THE W POEM by tmreed31

HUMAN MINE by tmreed31

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Published Reviews

Review for Airborne Poems 1990-1996 by Al Young
Review for Airborne Poems 1990-1996 by Simon Ortiz
Tennessee's writing has received praise from many great writers by Victor H. Cruz
Tennessee's writing has received praise from many great writers by Adrienne Kennedy