Roger Reeves
Roger Reeves is the author of King Me and Best Barbarian and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Founation and a 2015 Whiting Award, among other honors. His work has appeared in Poetry, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and elsewhere. Best Barbarian was a 2022 National Book Award finalist in poetry. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Art & Photography | Issue 162
Through the Smoke, Through the Veil, Through the Wind
Roger Reeves
‘In the middle of disaster, we made the unimaginable – joy.’
Roger Reeves on loss, memory and the legacy of slavery.