Roger Reeves
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| Born | Roger William Reeves January 1980 New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Morehouse College (BA) Texas A & M University (MA) University of Texas at Austin (MFA, PhD) |
| Genre | Poetry |
Roger William Reeves (born January 1980) is an American poet.
Life
Early life and education
Reeves was born and raised in southern New Jersey. He earned a B.A. in English from Morehouse College, an M.A. in English from Texas A & M University, an MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.[1]
Career
Reeves' work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review,Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Tin House,and The Paris American.[2] His debut collection of poetry, King Me,[3] was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Poetry Book of 2013.”[4] His second collection of poetry, Best Barbarian, was published in 2022 by W.W. Norton.
Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 NEA Fellowship, a 2013 Pushcart Prize, a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and two Cave Canem Fellowships.[5] For the 2014–2015 school year, Reeves was a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University.[6]
Reeves was an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago,[1] and is now an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.[7] In 2021, he was awarded the Suzanne Young Murray Fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.[8]
Poetry
- King Me. Copper Canyon Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-55659-448-9.[9]
- Best Barbarian. W.W. Norton. 2022. ISBN 978-0-393-60933-2.
References
- ^ a b "Roger Reeves". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
- ^ "Roger Reeves Poetry". Paris American. Archived from the original on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
- ^ "Someday You'll Love Roger Reeves | the Critical Flame". Archived from the original on 2014-09-18. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
- ^ "Reviews". Library Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-11-27. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
- ^ "Brooklyn Poets | Roger Reeves". Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
- ^ Undergraduate Announcement, 2014–15," Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Princeton University (2014)
- ^ "Roger Reeves". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ ""Standing in the Atlantic"". The New Yorker. 2021-10-09.
- ^ Rothman, Wesley (12 March 2014). "Someday You'll Love Roger Reeves". The Critical Flame. Archived from the original on 18 September 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
Roger Reeves challenges readers to become better versions of themselves, better for themselves and for others.