Roger Reeves

Roger Reeves is the author of King Me and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, among other honors. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Roger Reeves

Roger Reeves is the author of King Me and the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, among other honors. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Awards

Shortlisted — Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, 2023

Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2022

Shortlisted — NAACP Image Award, 2023

Shortlisted — PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, 2023

Winner — Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, 2023

Winner — Griffin Poetry Prize, 2023

Shortlisted — Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, 2023

Books by Roger Reeves

  • Best Barbarian: Poems

    Roger Reeves

    Hardback, 2022

  • Best Barbarian: Poems

    Roger Reeves

    E Book

    In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award–winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity—climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love,...
  • Best Barbarian: Poems

    Roger Reeves

    Paperback, 2023

    In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award–winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity—climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love,...