![]() ![]() Roger Reeves challenges readers to become better versions of themselves, better for themselves and for others. He covered six continents, transporting 20 ton ship loads of hash, tons of cocaine, and completed more than 100 sorties across the US border. Roger Reaves grew up a poor farm boy in Georgia and went from making 'moonshine' to becoming one of the most prolific smugglers of the 20th century. Archived from the original on 18 September 2014. 26.96 9 Used from 14.64 7 New from 26.96. ^ Nicole Thompson, "American poet Roger Reeves wins Griffin Poetry Prize for ‘Best Barbarian’"."Roger Reeves' 'Best Barbarian' named 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner ♼laremont Graduate University". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Norton, 2022) and King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. ^ Undergraduate Announcement, 2014–15," Archived at the Wayback Machine Princeton University (2014) Roger Reeves earned his PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf Press, 2023), Best Barbarian (W.^ "UIC poet awarded Pushcart Prize | UIC Today".^ "Someday You'll Love Roger Reeves | the Critical Flame".His book Best Barbarian was the winner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize. ![]() In 2023, Reeves received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In 2021, he was awarded the Suzanne Young Murray Fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. He covered six continents, transporting 20 ton ship loads of hash, tons of cocaine, and completed more than 100 sorties across the US border with plane loads of marijuana. Reeves was an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and is now an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. Roger Reaves grew up a poor farm boy in Georgia and went from making ‘moonshine’ to becoming one of the most prolific smugglers of the 20th century. For the 2014–2015 school year, Reeves was a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and two Cave Canem Fellowships. Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, a 2013 Pushcart Prize, a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Norton and became a finalist for the National Book Award. His debut collection of poetry, King Me, was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon Press and was honored as a Library Journal “Best Poetry Book of 2013.” His second collection of poetry, Best Barbarian, was published in 2022 by W.W. Reeves' work has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Tin House, and The Paris American. Michener Center for Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in English from Texas A & M University, an MFA from the James A. in English from Morehouse College, an M.A. Reeves was born and raised in southern New Jersey. ![]() Roger William Reeves (born January 1980) is an American poet and essayist. University of Texas at Austin ( MFA, PhD) ![]()
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