FOURTH SATURDAYS poetry readings
It is with pleasure that we announce a very special Wednesday evening event: a poetry reading featuring 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Winner Roger Reeves. The reading will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18, at the Helen Renwick Library in Claremont, CA. Join us for what is sure to be a stellar evening!
A little about the poet:
Roger Reeves, author of Best Barbarian (Norton, 2023), is the winner of Claremont Graduate University’s 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His previous books include King Me (poems), and the essay collection Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. Reeves is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, among other honors. He is an associate professor of poetry in the English Department at the University of Texas-Austin.
Our October readings will take place in person at our regular venue, the meeting room in the Claremont Helen Renwick Library, located at 208 N. Harvard Ave. in the Claremont Village.
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
We are grateful to be able to support our poets through funds and grants we receive from Friends of the Claremont Library and Poets & Writers. This special Wednesday evening reading is presented in association with Claremont Graduate University and the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards program.
A little about the poet:
Roger Reeves, author of Best Barbarian (Norton, 2023), is the winner of Claremont Graduate University’s 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His previous books include King Me (poems), and the essay collection Dark Days: Fugitive Essays. Reeves is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, among other honors. He is an associate professor of poetry in the English Department at the University of Texas-Austin.
Our October readings will take place in person at our regular venue, the meeting room in the Claremont Helen Renwick Library, located at 208 N. Harvard Ave. in the Claremont Village.
As always, this event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
We are grateful to be able to support our poets through funds and grants we receive from Friends of the Claremont Library and Poets & Writers. This special Wednesday evening reading is presented in association with Claremont Graduate University and the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards program.