Roger Reeves

Roger Reeves
Reeves at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Roger William Reeves January 1980 (age 44) 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 and essayist.

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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 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, The 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 and became a finalist for the National Book Award.^[5]

Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship,^[6] a 2013 Pushcart Prize,^[7] a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation,^[8] two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and two Cave Canem Fellowships.^[9] For the 2014–2015 school year, Reeves was a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University.^[10]

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.^[11] In 2021, he was awarded the Suzanne Young Murray Fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.^[12] In 2023, Reeves received a Guggenheim Fellowship^[13] and a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.^[14]

His book Best Barbarian was the winner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize.^[15]

Books

King Me. Copper Canyon Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-55659-448-9.^[16]
Best Barbarian. W.W. Norton. 2022. ISBN 978-0-393-60933-2.^[17]
Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. Graywolf Press. 2023. ISBN 978-1-64445-241-7.^[18]

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.
^ "Roger Reeves". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ "Roger W. Reeves". www.arts.gov. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ "UIC poet awarded Pushcart Prize | UIC Today". today.uic.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ Foundation, Poetry (2023-05-16). "Roger Reeves". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ "Brooklyn Poets | Roger Reeves". 31 March 2014. 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.
^ "Roger Reeves". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ Morales, Brittney (2023-03-01). "Roger Reeves' 'Best Barbarian' named 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner ·Claremont Graduate University". Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ Drudi, Cassandra (June 8, 2023). "Roger Reeves wins $130K Griffin Poetry Prize". Quill & Quire. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2023.
^ 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.
^ "Best Barbarian". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
^ "Dark Days | Graywolf Press". www.graywolfpress.org. Retrieved 2023-05-17.