Separate Birds, Fruit Strange As Blackberry - Softcover

Nicholas, Jeanette Swain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1546662723 ISBN 13: 9781546662723

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

All of Jeanette Swain Nicholas’s poems are about people, for people. They nudge readers to liberate their feelings and develop understanding about people of all colors. Their purpose is to foster communication about the minority and human experiences of living, loving, losing, learning, and laughing. Life experiences infuse Nicholas’s writing . . . from her career in social work and adult education in Detroit community groups to speech writing for Motown record executives and proofreading for several 1960s urban fiction writers. Nicholas’s poetry entertains, and entices those who “don’t like poetry.” In her minimalistic works, she offers surprises, builds suspense, and communicates powerful messages.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeanette Swain Nicholas is a multi-award-winning playwright and poet whose lifelong career centers around social work and community. Her jobs included serving as a supervisor of social workers, manager of a social services agency in Detroit, Michigan, and as a victim advocate in the Domestic Violence Unit of the Detroit Police Department. As an adult educator and activist, she also designed and taught workshops for social workers, and presented at the city’s colleges and universities. In her early career, she served as a speech writer for Motown record executives. She also proofread for several 1960s urban fiction writers. Jeanette started writing poetry at age sixty-five. After winning an Arizona State Poet Society contest, she became published on her seventieth birthday. Nicholas earned a BA degree in psychology, and did graduate work in fine arts and communication at Wayne State University. Her studies prompted her poetry, and inspired her to write scripts for plays, which were produced in various Detroit venues. Born and raised in Detroit, Nicholas also lived in San Antonio, Texas, and for twenty years in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The author now resides in Tempe, Arizona, and is currently drafting a second book of poetry inspired by her Phoenix suburb. She reads her poems at various community venues around Arizona, including women’s and senior groups. She can be reached at snjean814@gmail.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1546662723
• ISBN 13: 9781546662723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102
• Editor: Videan Ann Narcisian