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Wordspace: African Diaspora - Roger Reeves


South Dallas Cultural Center

Poet Roger Reeves comes to SDCC! Join us Thursday, May 16, @ 7:30 p.m. to witness his profound poetry and engage in thoughtful discussion.

WordSpace is honored to partner with South Dallas Cultural Center for the creation of African Diaspora-New Dialogues Series.  The African Diaspora–New Dialogues series has included Chris Abani, Vievee Francis, Mitchell Jackson, Tim Seibles, Tyehimba Jess, Douglas Kearney, Lonnie Holley, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Douglas Kearney, and Tina McElroy Anza. WS presents world-renowned performers, supports artistic development in Dallas and prioritize programs for cultural equity. 

Roger Reeves was born and raised in southern New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia. He earned a B.A. in English from Morehouse College, an M.A. in English from Texas A & M University, an MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. His poems have appeared in PoetryPloughsharesAmerican Poetry ReviewBoston ReviewTin HouseBest American Poetry, and the Indiana Review, among other publications, and he was included in Best New Poets 2009. Reeves has been awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, a 2013 NEA Fellowship, a 2013 Pushcart Prize, a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Hodder Fellow of Princeton University. Reeves is currently an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

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