The Red Door Poetry Series
Monday, October 9, 2023, 5:30 PM
In 2003, Reece authored The Clerk´s Tale, selected by Louise Glück, awarded the Bakeless Prize, recognized with an award from the Library of Congress. In 2014, The Road to Emmaus was published, long-listed for the National Book Award, short-listed for the Griffin Prize. In 2017, Reece edited a bilingual anthology of poems by the abandoned girls of Our Little Roses, Counting Time Like People Count Stars. The work was featured in an award-winning documentary film, Voices Beyond the Wall: 12 Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World. In 2021, two new works appeared, nonfiction and watercolors —The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Poet’s Memoir and All The Beauty Still Left: A Poet’s Painted Book of Hours. An Episcopal priest, he has served in San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Madrid, Spain; New York City, New York, and Rhode Island. More than a decade in the making, Acts is his long-awaited third collection of poems.
Christine Stevens calls herself a Nature Bard. She is a Plein Air poet in Jackson Hole whose poems of the spiritual wisdom of Nature have been featured in Cholla Magazine, Silver Birch Press, The Interpretive Naturalist and Seeds of the Soul. Christine is a certified naturalist, author and musician. A member of the Encinitas & Jackson Hole Poetry Groups, she published her first acclaimed poetry collection in 2022 entitled, The Nature Sutras.
