He had been saving up for the future
and realized he might not have one.
—from A Quilt for David
West Hollywood’s Inaugural Poet Laureate.
Steven Reigns is a poet, educator and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks, he has edited four anthologies, and authored the collections Inheritance and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat. His newest collection A Quilt for David will be out by City Lights in September and is the product of ten years of research.
Reigns created the first-ever autobiographical poetry workshop for LGBT seniors, lectured and taught workshops around the country to queer youth and people living with HIV. He is touring The Gay Rub, an exhibition of rubbings from LGBT landmarks, facilitates the monthly Lambda Lit Book Club, and is at work on a new collection of poetry. More info available HERE.
“
Truth is not only stranger than fiction; I think it’s more interesting.”
-- Steven Reigns
Accolades for Steven Reigns:
Poems that blister and smoke as they announce his arrival
—Wanda Coleman
Alert to his times and the textures of the lives around him, a community observed with tenderness, wit and pleasure.
-- Mark Doty
Queer poetics so precise and deft it leaves the reader almost singed by how close to the mark the words flare.
—Tim Miller
...A gay life lived with pleasure and bitterness and companionability…. bursting full of relationships”.
--Eileen Myles