Roger Reeves | 2024-2025 Readings and Talks

About this episode

Award-winning poet Roger Reeves reads from his works at the Lannan Center.

On Tuesday, April 8th, the Lannan Center hosted a reading by award-winning poet Roger Reeves, hosted by Carolyn Forché. Roger Reeves is the author of Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf, 2023) and 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...

People in this episode

Guest: Roger Reeves

Topics covered

• poetry
• literature
• readings

Keywords

• Dark Days: Fugitive Essays
• Best Barbarian
• National Book Award
• Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, Best Barbarian, King Me

Books & works: Dark Days: Fugitive Essays, Best Barbarian, the National Book Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, King Me

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