Tennessee Reed

Tennessee Reed

Tennessee Reed began writing as a child. To date she has published four poetry collections: Circus in the Sky (I. Reed Books, 1988), Electric Chocolate (Raven's Bones Press, 1990), Airborne (Raven's Bones Press, 1996), and City Beautiful, Poems 1998-2006, (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co., 2006). Her essay, "Being Mixed in America," appears in MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace, edited by Ishmael Reed (Viking, 1997). Her memoir, Spell Alburquerque, is forthcoming in 2008 from Counter Punch Press.

Tennessee Reed has read her poetry on the East and West Coasts of the United States, in Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, and Japan. As the youngest person ever presented by the USIA's Arts America Program, she read her poetry in Germany in 1994. Her poem, "Three Heavens and Hells," was set to music by composer Meredith Monk in 1992. Ms. Monk has performed it throughout the U.S. and Europe, and recorded it on "Volcano Songs" (ECM, 1997).

Tennessee Reed is a graduate of U.C., Berkeley (2001, B.A.) and Mills College (2005, M.F.A.). From 2002-2003, she was a consultant on high school curriculum and classroom presentations for the National Council of Teachers of English. Born in Oakland, California, she serves as Secretary of PEN Oakland.



 

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