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Roger Reeves

Roger Reeves is an associate professor of poetry and 2015 Whiting Award winner whose poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Nation, The Believer, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.

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I Can Drink the Distance

As “a stone in love” with falling, “I wound the water’s face” Then wear the mask of water all the way down into the lake. The distance of my falling remains a loss, an abyss I’ve consented to so arrive not as thought But as some angel of ...
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Without the Pelt of a Lion

  Rage: Sing, Goddess, of the on top of love And the president’s chronic angers, his mouth, a burning Bird of prey, a flood of flames, and nowhere not touched; Nowhere, the peace he makes of the world with war, Luxury, club, spear; the bodies of refugees He leaves in ...