Those mornings I traveled orth on I-91, passing below the basalt cliff of East Rock where elms discussed their genealogies. I was a chaplain at Hartford Hospital, took the Myers-Briggs with Sister Margaret, learned as I was an I drawn to Es. In small group I said, “I do not like it, the way young […]
Spencer Reece talks about the forthcoming anthology that he co-edited with Richard Blanco, Las Chavas (Home Girls): Twelve Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World.
Spencer Reece was born in 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of The Clerk’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) and The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), which was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award. He is currently working on an anthology of “twelve love poems from the murder capital of the world.” […]
When I look up at the sky my world is white. The wind blows the clouds. I want the world to be blue like the ocean across the street in my imagination. I want my life to be fun like the girls I hear around on the street. My name is long and complicated. I […]
Spencer Reece talks about what he finds to be the most pleasurable, and the most difficult, aspects of writing.
Spencer Reece talks about determining the form a poem takes.
Spencer Reece talks about the genesis of his poem "Monaco"
For Michael Williams Monaco was clean, with small clean streets. There was not much in the way of a shore. There was hardly any place to go. One clipped, well-behaved London plane tree, not welcoming like most ordinary trees, was kept apart by a white spear-tipped fence, and had a somewhat diffident sense of […]