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 t 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
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Radcliffe_Institute>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.

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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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