This interview first appeared on Justin Bienvenue’s author website. What can you tell us about your latest book, “god-chaser”? The poems in “god-chaser” are all about relationships—between lovers, friends, co-workers, brothers and sisters, gods and men. Most of it is…
Robert Arthur Reeves
Happy New Year 2013: poets to check out (and some not to)
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I thought I’d list poets I’ve read this past year and what I thought about them. First of all, people I take care to read every week: T.S. Eliot (always, always, always), Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Charles Swinburne (those two…
Robert Arthur Reeves
remembering JFK
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Today I’m thankful that Barack Obama is still president. He ain’t perfect, but he’s the first president I’ve both liked and trusted since the man who died this day 49 years ago. Here’s a poem I wrote in 2003, to…
Robert Arthur Reeves
Beginning thoughts on inspiration
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Those blog ruminations helped me write a long poem called “Boris Godunov,” which has not much to do with the opera. I guess I was toying with composing some new version of the story, but as usual, the poem I…
Sari Krosinsky
god-chaser Launches Nov. 29 at the Harwood
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It’s finally almost here! The official book launch for god-chaser is on Thursday, Nov. 29, 7-9 p.m. I’ll be joined by my partner, Robert Arthur Reeves, and two of my mentors, Tani Arness and (tentatively) Lisa D. Chavez.
Robert Arthur Reeves
Boris Godunov (3)
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That synopsis was rather a dreary piece of writing. Occasionally I’ll do that to myself—embark on a project that requires me to write something I’m not particularly interested in when I get to it. I just wanted to be able…