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Mar 27, 2023 · Roger Reeves. The dead dance and yelp far beyond their dying. This, the irony of our digital age—the dead undead in the afterlife, dancing. The image of them easily obtained with a few strokes in a search bar—“Michael Williams dancing.”. There, on the screen: the scar across Michael’s face, his dark skin, gold chains bouncing ...
Roger Reeves is the author of King Me and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 2015 Whiting Award, among other honours. His work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Roger Reeves is the author of two books of poems, King Me and Best Barbarian, a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. His debut book of essays, Dark Days , will be published by Graywolf Press in August.
Roger Reeves earned his PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf Press, 2023), winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award.
Nov 19, 2022 · Roger Reeves “Best Barbarian,” 2022 National Book Award finalist. In October, “Best Barbarian” was named as a finalist for the National Book Award, surprising no one in Austin who has followed his work for years. Reeves attended the MFA program at UT’s Michener Center in 2007-2010, and has lived mostly in Austin since then.
Aug 12, 2021 · Roger Reeves is a poet whose work includes the forthcoming “Best Barbarian” (W.W. Norton, March 2022). His first book won the Levis Reading Prize, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award and a ...
Jun 7, 2023 · TORONTO – June 7, 2023 –The Griffin Poetry Prize is pleased to announce the 2023 winner, Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves, who received C$130,000 in prize money. The other finalists were each awarded C$10,000. Judges Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia), Gregory Scofield (Canada), and Natasha Trethewey (USA) each read 602 books of poetry, including 54 translations from …
