Tony Reevy

Tony Reevy

TONY REEVY is the Senior Associate Director of the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University, UN– 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! and O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line, the poetry chapbooks Green Cove Stop, Magdalena, Lightning in Wartime and In Mountain Lion Country, and the full book of poetry, Old North. His 2015 releases are Passage (poetry; Iris Press), and The Railroad Photography of Jack Delano (Indiana University Press). He resides in Durham, North Carolina with wife Caroline Weaver, and children Lindley and Ian.

THIRTEEN REVISITED

In my 2016 essay for Hungarian Review, “Black Land”, I mentioned the coal camp once owned by my Hungarian grandfather, Stefan Révay (in the US he became Steve Revy). The place was called “Thirteen”; an unlikely name (in American folklore, thirteen is the most unlucky number). As of when I

THIRTEEN REVISITED

In my 2016 essay for Hungarian Review, “Black Land”, I mentioned the coal camp once owned by my Hungarian grandfather, Stefan Révay (in the US he became Steve Revy). The place was called “Thirteen”; an unlikely name (in American folklore, thirteen is the most unlucky number). As of when I

IMAGES FROM A LOST WORLD

Normally, in the United States, World War I is one of what I will call our forgotten wars. Everyone seems to remember the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War; and, of course, the current conflicts in which my country is involved. But World War

BLACK LAND

“As a Hungarian, Stefan and his family may have faced discrimination in Czechoslovakia. As Catholic “Hunkys”, they definitely faced discrimination in the United States as it was during the first half of the twentieth century. The Ku Klux Klan, today associated in the American mind with segregation, lynching and other