Roger Reeves (poet)
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| Roger Reeves | |
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| Born | Roger William Reeves |
| Occupation | professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Morehouse College; Texas A & M University; University of Texas at Austin |
| Genre | Poetry |
Roger Reeves, PhD (né Roger William Reeves; born January 1980 New Jersey) is an American poet.
Life
He was born and raised in southern New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia. 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]
His 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][4] was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Poetry Book of 2013.”[5]
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.[6] For the 2014-2015 school year, Reeves is a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University.[7]
Reeves is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago.[1]
Selected works
Poetry
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References
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- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/roger-reeves
- ↑ http://www.theparisamerican.com/roger-reeves-poetry.html
- ↑ https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={6C5C2052-9C96-463C-A331-E4B124ACBE7A}
- ↑ http://criticalflame.org/someday-youll-love-roger-reeves/
- ↑ http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/12/prepub/best-poetry-2013-the-extended-version-weve-got-12-top-titles-for-you/
- ↑ http://brooklynpoets.org/poet/roger-reeves/
- ↑ Undergraduate Announcement, 2014–15," Princeton University (2014)
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