About

Reggie Marra is the author, most recently, of Enough with the… Talking Points (nonfiction, 2020), Killing America (poetry, 2018), and And Now, Still (poetry, 2016). His first work of nonfiction, The Quality of Effort, was published in 1991 and released in a second edition in 2013. Reggie is a co-founder, along with Kent Frazier and Steve Benson, of ParadoxEdge. In addition to writing, he delivers his gifts to the world as a professional coach, a teaching poet, and a workshop facilitator. In the distant past, Reggie spent twenty-one years as a classroom teacher, administrator, and basketball coach in secondary and higher education. Find out more at reggiemarra.com and https://reggiemarra.substack.com/.

Thanks to Missy Alexander for the photo (Merryall Center, New Milford, CT, July 2023)

Also by Reggie Marra

Enough with the…Talking Points:
Doing More Good than Harm in Conversation

Killing America: Our United States of Ignorance,
Fear, Bigotry, Violence and Greed (poetry)

And Now, Still: Grave & Goofy Poems (poetry)

Coaching and Healing:
Transcending the Illness Narrative (co-author)

This Open Eye: Seeing What We Do (poetry)

Living Poems, Writing Lives:
Spirit, Self and the Art of Poetry

Who Lives Better Than We Do? (poetry)

The Quality of Effort: Integrity in Sport and Life
for Student-Athletes, Parents and Coaches