Poems by Roger Reeves
Children, Listen by Roger Reeves
October 17, 2025
“You must be the grass / You must grow wildly over the graves” — Roger Reeves
Roger Reeves
Roger Reeves
Born: January 1980
Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. His book Dark Days: Fugitive Essays (Graywolf, 2023) was a finalist for the 2024 Pegasus Award in Poetry Criticism. His poems and essays have been published in journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, and Granta, among others. Reeves is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Texas, Austin. (Source)