Poetry

• Inheritance: Poems (May 1, 2010)
  Steven Reigns poetry offers a gay life lived with pleasure and bitterness and companionability. As National Book Award winning American poet and memoirist Mark Doty so eloquently states: ''To read this book is to meet a man alert to his times and the textures of the lives around him, a community observed with tenderness, wit and pleasure.''

• My Life is Poetry (2008)
  An anthology of autobiographical poetry by gay, lesbian, and bisexual seniors. This collection was born out of a 16-week workshop taught by Reigns.
  
  Purchase from Steven's website.
  
  See an on-line video about this workshop.
  
  "I’m so proud of this collection. It is an anthology of autobiographical poetry written by gay, lesbian, and bisexual seniors. I felt honored to teach this group for over 16-weeks. The writings in the book were born out of a weekly workshop. I edited the collection, Jenny Walters took AMAZING portraits of the participants, novelist Dorothy Allison wrote the preface, and Thaddeus Root designed the book."

-- Steven Reigns

• Your Dead Body Is My Welcome Mat (2001)
  Reigns confronts abuses of power and living life in the margin.

• Ignited (2006) -- Chapbook made by Darin Klein & Steven Reigns
  A compilation of Reigns' writings on his first time with a man. The works range from a journal entry written the evening of the event on December 4, 1992 to a poem completed in July of 2005. Reigns writes in the introduction: "The moment we shared was a birth of sorts, an introduction. I hardly ever think of the specifics of that moment but do reflect on its emotional residue. Next year will mark fifteen years. Compiling these works, I realized that no amount of writing could really encapsulate all that the moment meant and ignited."   Purchase from Steven's website.

• Cartography (2007)
  In Cartography, Reigns charts his friendship with Michael Colleli. Written at the time of his death, the writings are full of loss, reminiscence, pain, and the joy of their friendship. This ten part non-lineal poem addresses the universals of loss, the material, faulty memory, and friendship bonds. Reigns plays cartographer in this poem as he charts his way through his shock and grief.
  Purchase from Steven's website.

See also:

• Three of Steve's poems were selected for the Surrender Your Weapon issue of Velvet Mafia, one of the leading online gay journals.
  http://velvetmafia.com/17/reigns.php

• Video clips have been added to Steven's website.  You can view them at http://www.stevenreigns.com/about/video.php.

• On January 1, 2007, Steven embarked on a 7-year endurance-performance based on Linda M. Montano's 14 Years of Living Art 1984-1998, and in solidarity with Montano's Another 21 Years of Living Art 1998-2021.
  
  The project, entitled S(t)even Years, is guided by the seven energy centers of the body and is under the mentorship of Montano.  For more information about this life fulfilling and life changing project see S(t)even Years.