Electric Chocolate: Poems, 1988-1989

Literature & Fiction

Reed, Tennessee

Poetry

Raven's Bones Press

Tennessee Reed compiled her writing from 1998 to 2006 in City Beautiful, her fourth published poetry collection. Among her experiences living a poet's life since the age of five were 1994 poetry workshops and readings in Berlin and Bonn, Germany, where she was youngest person ever presented by the United States Information Agency's Arts America Program. This two-part volume features a series of poems inspired by animals, "Animals & Others," originally part of her 2005 Master of Fine Art's thesis project at Mills College.

City Beautiful (Ishmael Reed Publishing Company)

Ishmael Reed Publishing Company

"Tennessee Reed is a brand new star in the galaxy of our spirit shining for all of our people."--Simon Ortiz, author of Telling and Showing Her "Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights."--Al Young, author of Something About the Blues "I admire your poems very much your exceptional imagination and profusion of imagery, your spirit, your perceptions, your sensibility. I treasure your book and really eagerly look forward to reading more " Adrienne Kennedy, Obie award winning playwright "The younger they come the harder we fall." Vance Bourjaily, novelist "This is positive solid assertive poetic truths coming from where language makes it language which was before us and will be after us manifesting its power through a young receiving mind." Victor H. Cruz, poet

Adventures Among The X Challenged

Contemporary

Xlibris

A new collection of poems from the American poet Tennessee Reed.

Califia Burning: Poems, 2012-2019 (American Literature)

Dalkey Archive Press

“Tennessee Reed is a brand new star in the galaxy of our spirit—shining for all of our people.”—Simon Ortiz, author of Telling and Showing Her
“Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder—and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights.”—Al Young, author of Something About the Blues
“I’m not like them,” Tennessee Reed would tell her teachers to get them to see that the approach they used for students with “normal” brains didn’t always work for her. As it turned out, she was different in quite a few other ways as well, including the great reserves of courage she could call upon to fight an educational system that often defined her disabilities as laziness or stupidity.
The daughter of writer/choreographer Carla Blank and novelist Ishmael Reed, Tennessee was diagnosed at an early age with several language-based learning disorders. The bottom line, the experts agreed, was that she would never read or write. Within a few years, however, she published her first book of poetry. By the time she was a teenager, she was writing the text for Meredith Monk performances and traveling the world to read her poems.
Spell Albuquerque is an inspiring memoir of one woman’s struggle to overcome racism and institutional authority and to achieve what everyone said was impossible.
Tennessee Reed is the author of five books of poetry, including City Beautiful, Airborne, and Electric Chocolate. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, and has a master’s degree from Mills College.

Spell Albuquerque: Memoir of a "Difficult" Student (Counterpunch)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

AK Press

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