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

photo credit: Richard Nagler

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

The Reeds' Trip to New York City October 6-13, 2009

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The Reeds returned to New York from October 6-13 for the ending weekend of The Domestic Crusaders' New York City Premiere. Tennessee Reed had two readings:one at Boricua College in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side Girl's Club in Manhattan. The American Book Awards were held at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side the evening after the closing of The Domestic Crusaders.