CAMPFIRE presents Roger Reeves + Mónica Jiménez
Sunday, July 14, 2024, 6:00 PM
This Sunday, July 14, CAMPFIRE welcomes acclaimed poet Roger Reeves and renowned historian Mónica Jiménez for a collaborative conversation about translating the theory of ethics, justice, and aesthetics into the work of love in practice. In addition to being authors and lauded professors at the University of Texas, Mónica and Roger are committed partners, large-hearted parents and impassioned activists. Join us for a conversation about bringing the art of love from the classroom and page into the family and the body politic as we engage in an exploration on how to channel deeper passion, joy and curiosity into one’s various vocations and life.
Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize. His debut collection is King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year, and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His next book is Dark Days: Fugitive Essays to be published by Graywolf in August 2024. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry14, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Whiting Award. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas, Austin.
Mónica A. Jiménez is a poet and historian. Her research and writing explore the intersections of law, race, and empire in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her book, Making Never Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, which offers a legal history of race and exception in the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, will be published in June 2024 by the University of North Carolina Press. Dr. Jiménez has received fellowships in support of her work from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2021, she was named an inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellow by the Flamboyan Arts Foundation. Her scholarly and creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in WSQ: Women Studies Quarterly, Latino Studies, CENTRO: Journal, and sx salon, among others. She is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas, Austin.
CAMPFIRE reimagines how we gather as community. Each month, we bring in guest speakers for a unique, participatory storytelling experience, hosted in a subtly ritualized framework, to explore what most drives, moves and inspires us.
Free and open to the public.
***Billy's Burgers and fare from the Virginian Saloon available onsite / free to first-time attendees!***
CAMPFIRE Gatherings are interactive, dynamic storytelling experiences that thrive on guest participation. Guests 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 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
A project of St. John's Episcopal Church, CAMPFIRE is an inclusive, celebratory community that affirms and honors the dignity and beauty of every human being. All are welcome, always.
Learn more at https://www.stjohnsjackson.org/campfire/
