The Receipt

In The Receipt, poetry blends with history and its lessons in a tribute to the human spirit. Reeves’ s poems are a receipt for life lived through the ages. Whether pre-cataclysmic Pompeii, Michelangelo on horseback to Bologna, or a plague doctor’ s first encounter with Angel Island, Reeves’ s fine eye, ear, and imagination find the imagery, metaphors, and language to create rhythms of history.

Trish Reeves’ s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Sarah Lawrence College (Keck), and the Kansas Arts Commission; a Pushcart Prize Special Mention; and the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize for her first book, Returning the Question. Her poems have been anthologized and have appeared in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, the Ploughshares Poetry Reader, New Letters, the Women’ s Review of Books, and Leon Literary Review. For twenty-one years, Reeves was on the English faculty at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and led Changing Lives Through Literature seminars for Johnson County Corrections. She holds a bachelor’ s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master’ s of fine arts from Warren Wilson College. Reeves is a Kansas Humanities Scholar in Literature.