A poetic picture book biography about blind Black poet Myra Viola Wilds written by the author of Brown The Many Shades of Love What dreams do you carry Myra Viola Wilds dreamed of opportunity. She left her home in rural Kentucky for the city learned to read and to write and became a dressmaker. She handstitched gorgeous gowns. She worked so hard she lost her eyesight and her world went dark. But those wellloved stitches turned into words and one night Myra woke in the middle of the night and wrote a poem she called ampldquoSunshine.amprdquo She kept writing. She wrote the lush green sweetcorn yellow cerulean blue sunshiney world from memory collecting her poems into a book called Thoughts of Idle Hours published in 1915. This lyrical gorgeously illustrated picture book biography celebrates this littleknown poet and includes a biography that provides context to her lifeampmdashthe Great Migration Jim Crow segregationampmdashas well a photograph and a small selection of her poems.