Spencer Reece was at MacDowell to finish his book of poems for his publisher before he moved to Madrid, Spain. He worked on a small book of essays about seeing George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Emily Dickinson as religious inspirations for his life as a priest. He was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2011. His poetry collection The Clerk’s Tale (2004) received the Bakeless Poetry Prize by Louise Glück and was adapted into a short film by director James Franco. Reece is also the author of the collection The Road to Emmaus (2013).
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Spencer Reece
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Madrid, SPAIN
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011
Studios
Sorosis
Spencer Reece worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…