Spencer Reece

Spencer Reece is a poet who lives in Juno Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University, he received a M.A. from the University of York (UK), and a M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School. At Wesleyan, Spencer took a class in writing verse with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard (Tinker at Pilgrim Creek), whom he describes as "an early encourager," along with James Merrill, the Stonington poet with whom Spencer shared a correspondence.

His 2004 book The Clerk’s Tale, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company (A Mariner Original). The Clerk's Tale was the winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize and was judged by former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück. The title poem describes a day in the life at a store in the Mall of America; Reece had worked for many years as a sales associate at Brooks Brothers. His work has appeared in Boulevard, The New Yorker and The American Poetry Review.

Awards

• Recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2009.
• Recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for poetry.
• Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize for 2004.
• Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship.

External links

• Emerging Poet: On Spencer Reece - The Academy of American Poets