Books
PoeTaree: The Jurisprudence of Life
“Earth, Wind and Fire” is the title track to PoeTaree: The Jurisprudence of Life. It’s like I wrote the complete manuscript to one of their timeless hit songs. The eighth chapter of this book is to encourage you to write. PoeTaree is a collection of many topics I thought about while touring Europe, Australia and Lollapalooza. Filled with stories and memories, this book is delivered in a way for one and all to enjoy. Take an adventure with me as I employ the writing techniques used to compose the hit single “Tennessee” for Arrested Development. Become a PoeTaree Person by completing this book and filling the eighth chapter with your own words. I encourage you to expand your mind and lift your soul with all of my solo projects involving PoeTaree!
Molly's Mental Health: Love Me Too
Everyone is a child at heart. Molly’s Mental Health: Love Me Too speaks to that part of your spirit. Wellness is the goal of the mental health community; with this book Aerle Taree has campaigned for it. Drawn while a patient in Grady’s 13th Floor, the illustrations are vibrant and bold. Later on in life, after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the author went on to become a Humanities major with a focus on Art in school. This now professional artist and writer has written four other books. Part of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes to the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI).
Humanities Matters: The Essay Collection
In modern society, humanity impacts our lives in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. On television you may see a woman in a war-torn country cry out, “Where’s the humanity?” She asks a fine question indeed, yet not a particularly easy one to answer. Change the channel and the newscaster reports slivers of humanity - the opening of a center to help people with dyslexia and language-based learning differences, dedicated by Bill and Camille Cosby on behalf of the Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation, which they established in memory of their late son.
Autobiography of Aerle Taree: Originally of Arrested Development
The two-time Grammy Award winner with the group Arrested Development, Aerle Taree has written her fourth book. It is filled with star-studded sightings and her beloved childhood in the Midwest college town of Madison, Wisconsin. This college graduate goes on to give more information about her two-million-dollar lawsuit and her bout with bipolar disorder.
CoCo: The Girl
Is about a wonderful, savvy young lady named Sandra Johnson who is the VP of Marketing at Kraft foods. She lives in Chicago, IL and has a best friend named Suzy who lives in her condo building. Suzy hooks her up with Gary, Suzy’s boss in an effort to try to help her get over her heartache from a love affair with Jamal. But it doesn’t work for just as CoCo Girl runs from one lover’s arms she finds herself in Jamaica licking her wounds. After returning from her trip she returns back to college to get her Ph.D. with the help of a program called the Ph.D. Project and ends up with Jamal again. “Could he be the one?” she thinks to herself as she finishes the last year’s research on her dissertation.
Coming Soon!
Donna Jones, Esq. is now writing her memoirs as part of the final and new releases to be included with the books by her daughter Aerle Taree. The storyline will start with her childhood in the infamous housing projects Cabrini Green on Chicago, IL near North side. Then she will go on to tell the story of her years in college and law school at the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s campus. Later on she became an Urban Fellow and completed her fellowship to return to Wisconsin as Milwaukee County’s Contract and Compliance Officer. Her career as an Administrator and Civil Rights Attorney peaked when she returned to Madison as the Universities Affirmative Action Director under Donna Shalala. All of this will be told in the page turner that will make up her life story. Email Executive@AerleTaree.com to get your advance copy.
Products
PoeTaree The Album
The song that I co-wrote with Speech of Arrested Development, “Tennessee” is by far my greatest work in song writing. But this work does not fall far behind. PoeTaree The Album is a collection of ten songs that have a genuine gift of life given in delivery to all that have the opportunity to have their ears bless it. It is my final and last album. In 1998 I had throat surgery that destroyed my voice and left me unable to record. But I got something in the can before that happened with the help of R.E.M.’s manager, and this is it. Recorded under the direction of Universal Music Publishing the lyrics are taken form the poems that accompany the album, PoeTaree: The Jurisprudence of Life. The universal musicality of these songs are eclectic, jazzy and funky. This album is for sale now at the Book Festival Tour and on iTunes!
POETAREE POST
This colorful art work is in black and white inside my book, PoeTaree: The Jurisprudence of Life. I have put together these color prints of the work along with my original poems (not in the book) to sell to you as a collection of greeting cards called PoeTaree Post. The artists of these wonderful works are a team of artists called Cheo and Polando of Techno Primitive Art. Our partnership, my poems and their art work make for a wonderful marriage that gave birth to the most gifted collection that you can share with your friends through the mail or collect for yourself.
PoeTaree: The Episode
This is a fifteen minute short that outlines the life and times of the event that happened during my throat surgery and made me bipolar. First let me say that I absolutely love the women of Spelman College and thank Johnnetta B. Cole Ph.D. for all of her support and the gift of education, but I love the astute business woman who is Speech’s mother, publisher Pat Patillo. But when I was in school I was forced to have an unfortunate surgery and in the film I detail the exact moment that I broke and became bipolar. I call this PoeTaree: The Episode because because it is the point of contact between my artistry-PoeTaree and my mental illness-Episode.
NIA
You can order PoeTaree T-Shirts fashion line called NIA at www.nia.spreadshirt.com for a low cost. They are all designed by the artist Aerle Taree herself. Aerle Taree attended and was awarded her certificate of attendance from the Ivy League University of Cornell University at the ripe age of eightteen. Her major was fashion design and this lead to her knowledge and skill of the craft for the goods that she designed for the group Arrested Development as their stylist. The African-Mud-Cloth Coat that she wore on the Grammy’s when she gave the TWO acceptance speeches will be the signature piece of clothing available soon.
