Tony Reevy is a graduate of North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Miami University. He is a David P. Morgan Award winner ( 2006) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. His previous publications include poetry, non-fiction and short fiction, including the non-fiction books Ghost Train!, 0. Winston Link: Life Along the Line and The Railroad Photography of Jack Delano; the full books of poetry, Old North and Passage; and the poetry chapbooks Green Cove Stop, Magdalena, Lightning in Wartime, and In Mountain Lion Country. Reevy spent much of his childhood in Socorro, New Mexico. He resides in Durham, North Carolina with wife, Caroline Weaver, and children Lindley and Ian.

Books by Tony Reevy:

Other poems on the web by Tony Reevy:
Two poems
Four poems

About Socorro:

"Tony Reevy nails it in his new book, Socorro, that is, the Southwest, its arid land and sunlight, the encrustations of culture enameling the rites of Hispanic and Anglo and Indio cultures, overlapping and creating brocaded weavings of cultural rites, the feel of life, the humming of the landscape. Mr. Reevy has captured it, almost impossible to do, but with his words and poetic sensibility, he triumphs! A beautiful book of poetry, one you'll go back to again and again to read and recommend to others."
—Jimmy Santiago Baca

"In Socorro, Tony Reevy's poems start with rich, concrete narratives of his boyhood in a high desert town in New Mexico. Abandoned mines, herbal cures, ghost stories and a bear outside a sleeping tent all serve to help story bring legends to life in a land rich with history, mystery and too often blood. I am reminded that Georgia o'Keefe described the winter landscape of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains as The Far Away Nearby. The legends and dreamscapes that complete the collection, shaped by a strong personal voice, give readers a true sense of place in a complex, diverse culture with a past filled with both sorrow and beauty."
—Bill Brown

"I have admired Tony Reevy's poems since I joined his love of trains and railroads—and now—what relief Socorro brings to my childhood, prompted by memories Reevy mimes in imaginative longings to keep his biography in place, secure in dreams and legends, summer storms and clay-dollops, in coyotes sniffing whatever poetry is, right here —Socorro."
—Shelby Stephenson