Reeves earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Through the use of free verse as well as more traditional forms, such as the abecedarian, elegy, and ode, these poems engage the singing of James Baldwin, the images, details, and metaphors of the current protest movement, the ontology and epistemology of the hush harbor, and subversive sites of study during slavery to create a long song that sings out of the largesse of black life, a song that sings of a future that is both ecstatic and defiant. He is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin.ĭuring his fellowship, Reeves is working on a poetry project, “One From Another,” which takes up the task of deploying ecstasy as a protest aesthetic, as a disruption of racial terror. Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2014, Boston Review, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Tin House, among other publications. This information is accurate as of the fellowship year indicated for each fellow.
