Visiting writers series features poet Roger Reeves
February 16, 2017
Poet Roger Reeves will read from his work at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, as part of the
annual Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Department of English
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Reeves will read in the Schaible Auditorium on the Fairbanks campus. The reading is
free and open to the public.
Reeves’ debut collection of poetry, "King Me," was published in 2013 by Copper Canyon
Press and received the 2014 Levis Reading Prize. Reeves has also been awarded a Ruth
Lilly Fellowship, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, two Cave Canem Fellowships, a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Whiting Award and a Pushcart Prize. His poems
have been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Tin House and
Best American Poetry, among others.
Reeves received a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from
the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series director Sean Hill described Reeves as “one of
the best poets and minds in the nation.”
The Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series is made possible by support from the College
of Liberal Arts and English department donors. Reeves’ visit was also sponsored by
49 Writers, a local writer’s guild.
The College of Liberal Arts, the largest of UAF’s academic units, comprises arts,
humanities, social sciences and language disciplines across 20 departments.
CONTACT: Naomi Horne, nehorne@alaska.edu, 907-474-6464
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