Biography Poet, novelist, and critic, graduate of Princeton and Columbia Universities, Reeve has had a varied career. After acting in summer theater, harvesting wheat in the Midwest and working as a longshoreman on the Hudson River docks, he became a Russian scholar and spent a year in Moscow and Leningrad as an exchange professor. In the years that followed, Reeve published poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in journals across the country, reviewed for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and served as a professor of letters at Wesleyan University, often traveling to England and Europe, including Russia, for research and for presentations of his work. In 1999 he visited Moscow and St. Petersburg for the seventh time to give readings and to lecture on poetry. Thirty years ago he moved to Vermont, where he built his own house, before settling in an old farmhouse in Wilmington. He is married to the novelist and Marlboro College professor Laura C. Stevenson. Reeve began publishing poetry in national magazines while still in college. His two dozen books include In the Silent Stones, the novel The Brother, short stories about the docker world A Few Rounds of Old Maid, and Robert Frost in Russia. Concrete Music includes his poem about Navajo culture “Nightway”; The Moon and Other Failures and The Urban Stampede each contains a long poem designed for musical accompaniment in concert performance. Eric Chasalow is presently writing the music for the next one, The Puzzle Master, about Daedalus and his high-flying son Icarus. The Return of the Blue Cat, with a CD by the poet and improv jazz trio Exit 59, came out in 2005. He joined Margo Shohl Rosen in each translating half of Anatoly Naiman’s selected poems, Lions and Acrobats. In October there followed his social-based novel about the crossed lives of two modern American women, My Sister Life. 2006 started off with Azul Editions' limited edition of a book of new docker stories, North River. Davis & Deleault and he just released a Blue Cat sequel--"The Blue Cat Walks the Earth"--and a new book of poems is about to appear--"The Toy Soldier," including the sequences "The Blue Boat on the St. Anne" and "Causes of War." He contributed "The Blue Cat Blues" to Bayeux Arts' anthology "For New Orleans & Other Poems." His writing has won him an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Society, the May Sarton Award, the Allen Tate Prize, and a Doctor of Letters from New England College.