Reading: Roger Reeves
Schedule
Thu Nov 07 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
1508 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ, United States, Arizona 85721 | Tucson, AZ
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The Poetry Center is proud to present a reading by Roger Reeves.Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Tracy K. Smith called it “a revelation and a form of reparation.” His debut collection is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year, and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His debut work of non-fiction, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf Press 2023), was the 2024 GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction winner. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Whiting Award. He is currently a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.
All Reading & Lecture series events will be streamed live on our website in addition to the in-person reading.
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Where is it happening?
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