Poet Roger Reeves Reading

In March of 2022, Norton published Roger Reeves’s latest poetry collection, Best Barbarian. This breathtaking collection balances deep precision with a wide-ranging free association that tackles racism, immigration, climate change, love, and loss amid the backdrop of literary and musical touchstones such as Beowulf and the jazz musician Alice Coltrane. While a Suzanne Young Murray Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study this past year, Reeves published poems in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Republic. Reeves will discuss his poetics with Stokes Center director Charlotte Pence and read some of his poetry in a public talk on Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 5:00pm. This free event will be held in the Student Center Terrace Room at the University of South Alabama.