Roger Reeves reads poems from his electric collection, King Me. From a horse witnessing the lynching of Emmett Till to Mikhail Bulgakov chronicling the forced famines in Poland in the 1930s, King Me examine the erotics of care and the importance of song, elegy, and praise as testaments. After a 15-minute reading, Reeves will discuss his work and his creative process. Roger Reeves earned his PhD from the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, and Princeton University. Reeves is an associate professor of poetry in the English Department at the University of Texas, Austin. His second collection of poetry is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.

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