Education
He graduated from Wesleyan University (1985). From the University of York (United Kingdom), his M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School, and a Master of Divinity from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University.
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Spencer Reece
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Reece received his Master of Arts 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 corresponded. His 2004 book, The Clerk’s Tale, was published by the Houghton Mifflin Company (A Mariner Original). The title poem describes a day in the life at a store in the Mall of America.
Reece worked for many years as a sales associate at Brooks Brothers in the Mall.
James Franco based his short film on the title poem. Reece"s second book, The Road to Emmaus, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2014.
His work has appeared in Boulevard, The New Yorker and The American Poetry Review.
Achievements
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for The Road to Emmaus Recipient of the Witter Bynner Prize administered by the Library of Congress. Recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2009. Recipient of a Whiting 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. Recipient of an Amy Lowell Traveling Grant.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize; the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize; Whiting award; laureate Louise Glück; Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for The Road to Emmaus Recipient of the Witter Bynner Prize administered by the Library of Congress. Recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2009. Recipient of a Whiting 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. Recipient of an Amy Lowell Traveling Grant. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Guggenheim Fellowship Pushcart Prize; the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize; Whiting award; laureate Louise Glück; Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize for The Road to Emmaus Recipient of the Witter Bynner Prize administered by the Library of Congress. Recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2009. Recipient of a Whiting 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. Recipient of an Amy Lowell Traveling Grant. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.