Spencer Reece
In 2003, Spencer Reece authored The Clerk's Tale, selected by Louise Glück, awarded the Bakeless Prize, and recognized with an award from the Library of Congress. In 2014, The Road to Emmaus was published, long-listed for the National Book Award, and short-listed for the Griffin Prize. He is the vicar of St. Paul’s, Wickford, Rhode Island. More than a decade in the making, Acts is his long-awaited third collection of poems.
Biography
In 2003, Spencer Reece authored The Clerk's Tale, selected by Louise Glück, awarded the Bakeless Prize, and recognized with an award from the Library of Congress. In 2014, The Road to Emmaus was published, long-listed for the National Book Award, and 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 Episciopal priest, he served in San Pedro Sula, Honduras; Madrid, Spain; and New York City, New York. He is the vicar of St. Paul’s, Wickford, Rhode Island. More than a decade in the making, Acts is his long-awaited third collection of poems.