Title: Birdwild
Description: Birdwild, shares excerpts from the award-winning poem, Black Cotton, the 2018 Author’s Pick for the “Colorism Healing Anthology of Essays and Poems, Volume 2.” It is a heartwarming story about the true meaning of family and togetherness from the author and educator, Bobbi Simmons. What the main character and protagonist Bree uncovers is that in her own family, skeletal enigmas from the past run deeper than the roots of the tall pine trees that stand along the side of the pastured fields of the Breeze farm, and that all will be unveiled.
Subjects: Family, secrets, lies
Places: Allendale, South Carolina
People: Bree Breeze
Time periods: Racial Tensions in the South