A Lot of Miles
"Teacher says there is a magic trick we all can do! 'We can walk a mile in our neighbors’ shoes! We can understand everyone a little more when we put on their shoes and explore!'" Cydnee A. Reese (Wanderer) uses verse to tell the story of one child's initial discovery of empathy. Enjoy the vibrant illustrations by Geli Chavez and Taylor McQueary as you explore society from the view points of various individuals living different life experiences. This K-2 book is intended to be read by a child with a parent/guardian/trusted adult and includes both opportunities to respond throughout the book (annotated by "footnotes") and related activities at the end of the story.
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Ebony Blankets: A Collection of Poems by the Artist Called Wanderer
Ebony Blankets, Wanderer's first collection, is an unapologetically pro-black collection that serves as a reminder and testament to the greatness, beauty, potential and so much more of the black community. The works in this collection are meant to uplift and challenge the black community, speak its perspectives into the atmosphere and help ensure that these lives matter in this world. One poem, one ear and one set of eyes at a time, Wanderer plans to help unify this troubled world; and this collection is a start.
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Lof is Easy to Spell
Cydnee A. Reese's intransigent response to the quote, "Love is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, and impossible to live without." This chapbook traces love in its many states: desire and distance, devotion and doubt, the quiet moments that linger long after the grand gestures fade. Moving through longing, intimacy, rupture, and remembrance, these poems examine how love shapes the body, the voice, and the self. Together, these poems form a meditation on how love teaches us to stay, to leave, and, ultimately, to return to ourselves.
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Pocketbook Poetry: Couplets
Pocketbook Poetry is a new series of mini collections of poems by Cydnee A. Reese that fit in your wallet!
A couplet poem is made of two consecutive lines that rhyme and usually share the same rhythm, often forming a complete thought, like Dr. Seuss's "I do not like green eggs and ham / I do not like them, Sam-I-am". Couplets can stand alone or form stanzas in longer poems, with common types including closed couplets (complete sentences with end punctuation) and heroic couplets (in iambic pentameter, popular in 17th/18th centuries).
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Pocketbook Poetry: Villanelle
Pocketbook Poetry is a new series of mini collections of poems by Cydnee A. Reese that fit in your wallet!
A villanelle is a 19-line poem with five tercets (three-line stanzas) and a concluding quatrain (four-line stanza), defined by its strict repetition of the first and third lines as refrains, alternating at the end of each subsequent stanza and forming the poem's final two lines, using only two rhymes (A1bA2 / abA1 / abA2 / abA1 / abA2 / abA1A2) for a song-like, often obsessive, effect. Famous examples include Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" and Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art".
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