Description

Roger Reeves, winner of the 2014 Levis Reading Prize for King Me, reads from his book, then participates in a Q&A session with the audience. A book sale and signing follow the reading.

The event is free and open to all. Parking is available for a fee in the West Broad Street, West Main Street, and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, or to register offline, please contact the VCU Libraries Events Office at (804) 828-0593.

Sponsors

The event is sponsored by the VCU Department of English, VCU Libraries, the VCU Honors College, Barnes & Noble @ VCU Bookstore and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, with additional funding provided by the family of Larry Levis.

About the Author

Poems by Roger Reeves have appeared in Best American Poetry, Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Tin House and the 2014 edition of The Pushcart Prize. Copper Canyon Press published King Me, his first book of poems, in 2013. He has been awarded a 2014–15 Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Image: Roger Reeves, by Rachel Eliza Griffiths/King Mebook cover, courtesy of Copper Canyon Press