DuEwa Frazier Reading & Signing for "Alice's Musical Debut"

Seven year old Alice McLeod has a special ear, an ear for musical sounds in and around her home in Detroit. A thunderstorm keeps Alice awake one night and as she listens to the storm from her bedroom window, the sounds of an owl and the rain seem to call her name. Playing outside becomes a sensory adventure for Alice.  "Alice's Musical Debut" re-imagines one day in the childhood of the late jazz pianist, harpist, composer, and organist Alice Coltrane - wife of the legendary jazz saxophonist and composer, John Coltrane. Set in the 1940s, "Alice's Musical Debut" reveals the magical connection young Alice McLeod has with nature sounds and musical rhythms. "Alice's Musical Debut" is a story filled with poetic language and imagery that speaks to the hearts of all children.

DuEwa Frazier is an award winning poet, writer, speaker, author, educator, and performer. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens and St. Louis, DuEwa has been honored with a Mayor's Proclamation in St. Louis, a Black Caucus of ALA Conference Literacy Presenter Award, Writers Digest Publishing Awards honorable mention, and an NAACP Image Award nomination.  DuEwa is also the author of two teen novels, "Quincy Rules" (2016) and "Deanne in the Middle" (2014); several books of poetry, including "Goddess Under the Bridge: Poems" (2013) and the editor of the NAACP Image Award nominated, "Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees" (2006).

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