Roger Reeves

Aug 21, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Roger Reeves |Heather Green

Are things really this bad? Of course, but define your terms. The pandemic-defying protests of 2020 over the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor culminated in moderate jail sentences for a handful of perpetrators, Juneteenth as a national holiday, and the phrase Black Lives Matter painted on the concrete of a major street in Washington, DC. They did not incite the wholesale reconfiguration of policing and the carceral system, as many activists had imagined.

Aug 1, 2023 | newspub.live | Roger Reeves |Graywolf Press

DARK DAYS: Fugitive Essays, by Roger ReevesConsider the Black Square. In the summer of 2020, not long after George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis and a few months into pandemic lockdown, people who felt galvanized to act took to Instagram or Facebook, replacing their profile pictures with a plain black box to signal their support for Black victims of racism. The Square epitomized that moment’s sometimes-futile rhetoric around race and Blackness.

Aug 1, 2023 | nytimes.com | Ismail Muhammad |Roger Reeves |Graywolf Press

Book Review|Is There a Right Way to Talk About Black Culture? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/books/review/dark-days-roger-reeves.htmlNonfictionIn the essay collection “Dark Days,” Roger Reeves tries to sidestep mainstream arguments to engage deeply with the way people actually live and think.

Jul 10, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Roger Reeves

By Roger Reeves July 10, 2023 On Film 1.

Jun 12, 2023 | vqronline.org | Roger Reeves

He had to get away. I could not stop reading until Fred Daniels, the protagonist in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground, was ensconced in darkness in a sewer underneath the city, the water sluicing around his knees, a single beam of daylight falling through the manhole cover onto his face.