Reeves, Roger 2014; 2016
Friday, August 29, 2014
Six Points Reading Series
with Jason Koo and Simone Muench
Chicago Cultural Center
Six Points Reading Series
with Jason Koo and Simone Muench
Chicago Cultural Center
They part
here—the boy’s body found
in another man’s arms, carried back
to town, as the horse says nothing
because horses don’t speak, besides
this one’s dead.
– Roger Reeves, “The Mare of Money”
Roger Reeves, Simone Muench, and Jason Koo at the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Six Points Reading Series, August 29, 2014.
I will begin with braces
strung across a man’s teeth
as a downed kite might
string itself across four lanes
of a seven-lane highway
– Roger Reeves, “Brazil”
Watch Roger Reeves give his talk, “The Work of Art in the Age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and Charleston,” at Poets & Writers Live Chicago:
