Justin Phillip Reed

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Photo by Nicholas A. C. Nichols.

Poet and essayist Justin Phillip Reed was born and raised in South Carolina. He earned his BA from Tusculum College and an MFA from Washington University, where he was also Junior Writer-in-Residence. Reed is the author of the poetry collections The Malevolent Volume (Coffee House Press, forthcoming Spring 2020) and Indecency (Coffee House Press, 2018), winner of the National Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His chapbook is A History of Flamboyance (YesYes Books, 2016). His work has appeared in African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, Kenyon Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. In 2019 he was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, the Conversation Literary Festival, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, Reed currently lives in St. Louis.

Poems by Justin Phillip Reed

Justin Phillip Reed

Carolina Prayer

Every Cell in this Country Looks Like a Choice You Can Walk In and Out Of

I Have Wasted My Life

I Will Guide Thy Hand

In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus

Of Someone Else Entirely

On Being a Grid One Might Go Off Of

Pushing Up Onto Its Elbows, the Fable Lifts Itself Into Fact.

When I Was a Poet

When I Was a Poet

In My Defense, Monsters: Notes on Black Poetic Grotesqueries, Composite Humanity, and Freedoms of the Horrific, Part 1

In My Defense, Monsters: Notes on Black Poetic Grotesqueries, Composite Humanity, and Freedoms of the Horrific, Part 2

In My Defense, Monsters: Notes on Black Poetic Grotesqueries, Composite Humanity, and Freedoms of the Horrific, Part 3

In My Defense, Monsters: Notes on Black Poetic Grotesqueries, Composite Humanity, and Freedoms of the Horrific, Part 4

Poetry and Film: Reading in the Dark

Cyrée Jarelle Johnson vs. Satisfaction

In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows 2019

Xandria Phillips vs. Digging vs. Running

Justin Phillip Reed

Appeared in Poetry Magazine Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows 2019

Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows 2019