Poetry

Tony’s newest poetry publication is a full length book of poetry Soccoro available on from the publisher Iris Press and in local bookstores.

Tony has published three full books of poetry and four poetry chapbooks in addition to over 70 individual poems. Tony has read from his poetry more than thirty times since 2000.

Poetry books

  • Soccoro, Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2017.
  • Passage, Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2015.
  • Old North, Oak Ridge, TN: Iris Press, 2013.

Poetry Chapbooks

  • In Mountain Lion Country (poetry chapbook), Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications, 2009.
  • Lightning in Wartime (poetry chapbook), Georgetown, Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, fall 2007.
  • Magdalena. Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications, 2004.
  • Green Cove Stop. Cincinnati, Ohio: Finishing Line Press, 2002.

Poems in Anthologies

  • “In Cidering Time” (poem), Richard Krawiec, editor, “The Sound of Poets Cooking, Durham, North Carolina: Jacar Press, 2010, p. 128-129.
  • “On U.S. 11” (poem), Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, Arlington, Virginia: Gival Press, 2009, p. 134.
  • “Conjure in the Southport Burying Ground” and “The Accused” (poems), Zeus Seduces the Wicked Stepmother in the Saloon of the Gingerbread House, Boise, Idaho: Winterhawk Press, 2008, p. 65 and 116.
  • “Dream of Valverde Field” (poem), Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, Igo, California: Yarroway Mountain Press, 2008, p. 391.
  • “Dawn at Kitty Hawk” (poem), Sand, Sea, & Sail Fayetteville, N.C.: Old Mountain Press, 2007, p. 40.
  • “Long Trail” (poem) in Margot Wizansky, editor, Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains South Dartmouth, Massachusetts: Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2005, p. 5.
  • “Lightning in Wartime,” in Robert L. Giron, editor, Poetic Voices Without Borders Arlington, Virginia: Gival Press, 2005, p. 95.
  • “Nights After Daycare,” in Jennifer Graf Groneberg, editor, My Heart’s First Steps: Writings that Celebrate the Gifts of Parenthood Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2004, p. 218.
  • “Prophecy” (poem), in Timothy F. Crowley, editor, Poets for Peace: A Collection. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Chapel Hill Press, Inc., 2002.
  • “In the Sun After A Noon Rain, Woodrow Street” (poem), in Sharon Ewing, editor, Earth and Soul: An Anthology of North Carolina Poetry. Durham, North Carolina: Kostroma Writer’s Organization, 2001.
  • “Stars of Eger” (poem), in Shirley Richburg, editor, 2000: Here’s to Humanity. Baltimore, Maryland: The People’s Press, 2000.

Selected Poetry Publications

  • “Puszta: Youngstown, Ohio” (poem), Off the Coast, 18:2, Spring 2012, 71.
  • “Prize of War” (poem), Spillway, 17, Fall 2011, p. 49.
  • “Lament of the Muse” (poem), Off the Coast, 17:4, Fall 2011, p. 9.
  • “Revisiting Liberty Warehouse” and “Looking for Blind Boy Fuller’s Grave” (poems), Crab Orchard Review, 16:2, Summer/Fall 2011, pp. 180-181.
  • “Mrs. Carty” (poem), Levelerwww.levelerpoetry.com, November 8, 2010.
  • “Buyout” (poem), Natural Bridge, Number 18, Fall 2007, p. 12.
  • “The Slave Barn” (poem), Out of Line, 2007, p. 118.
  • “Uncle Bus” (poem), Off the Coast, Volume 9, Number 2, May 2003.
  • “In Riverside Cemetery” (poem), The Thomas Wolfe Review, Volume 26, Numbers 1 and 2, 2002.
  • “A Place in All Seasons”(poem), Pembroke Magazine, Number 34, 2002.
  • “Green Cove Stop” (poem), Now & Then, Winter 1998.
  • “Stars of Eger” (poem), Pembroke Magazine, Number 30, 1998.
  • “The Chief” (poem), Asheville Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1996.
  • “Uwharrie” (poem), Charlotte Poetry Review, Summer/Fall 1993.

Reviews of Tony’s poetry

  • Trust words like these, offered with a quiet assurance that invariably forecasts trustworthiness and truth. — Kaye Gibbons
  • Tony Reevy’s “Lightning in Wartime” is as poignant as it is unsettling. At every turn in these two dozen poems, we wonder deeply over what may have been gained, at what has been lost. — Bland Simpson