Black Poetry Day - Monday, October 17th

[Nicolle Jarvis]

*Monday, October 17th is Black Poetry Day. *

This year's poet, Dr. Roger Reeves, will be reading from his poetry in
Krinovitz Hall beginning at 7:00 PM.

Dr. Roger Reeves earned a B.A .in English from Morehouse College and an
M.A. from Texas A & M University. He has an MFA and a PhD from the
University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at the University of Illinois
at Chicago and is currently an associate professor of English at University
of Texas, Austin.

Dr. Reeves’ work has received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry
Foundation, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and the Suzanne
Young Murray Fellowship at Harvard Radcliffe Institute
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute>. He is also the
recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the 2015 Whiting Award winner. His debut
collection of poems, *King Me*, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award.
W.W. Norton published his second collection of poems, *Best Barbarian* this
year, and the work is now a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry.
Copies of* Best Barbarian* will be available at the reading. We hope you
can join us for this event.

-- 
Dr. Tracie Church Guzzio
Director, Redcay Honors Program
Professor, Dept. of English
Africana Studies
guzziotc at plattsburgh.edu
518-564-3075
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