CAMPFIRE
Sunday, June 18, 2023, 7:00 PM
Roger Reeves, award-winning poet and intellectual, headlines the second installment of CAMPFIRE: a monthly gathering that cultivates conversation & connection through interactive storytelling.
CAMPFIRE reimagines how we gather as community. Each month, we bring in guest speakers for a multimedia storytelling experience, hosted in a subtly ritualized framework, to explore what drives, moves and inspires us.
For our third installment of this monthly community-building series, our guest conversation partner is Roger Reeves.
Drawing on song and video clips from Outkast and James Baldwin, Reeves will guide us in a conversation that explores Black joy and ecstasy as a form of protest.
Roger Reeves is author of Best Barbarian, Winner of the 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize, Winner of the 2023 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry, and a New York Times Notable Book. He is also the author of King Me, winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, among other venues He was awarded a 2015 Whiting Award, two Pushcart Prizes, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and a 2008 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas, Austin. His forthcoming collection, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays will be published by Graywolf Press in August 2023.
CAMPFIRE Gatherings are interactive, dynamic storytelling experiences that thrive on guest participation. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and stay late as we enjoy a festal 'communion' of food, libations, and conversation together. Above all, CAMPFIRE aims to create a space for anyone who craving meaningful connection.
CAMPFIRE also supports regular small-group meet-ups for individuals keen on deepening conversation and connection over meals, film and article discussion, and skiing / hiking forays into the backcountry.