Margaret Gibson (born 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet.
Life[edit]
Margaret Gibson grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and was educated at Hollins College, and the University of Virginia. She went to Yaddo in 1975.[1]
Gibson is Professor Emerita at The University of Connecticut.[2]
She was named to a three-year term as Poet Laureate of Connecticut in 2019.[3]
Gibson was married to the late David McKain, poet and author. She lives in Preston, Connecticut.[4]
Awards[edit]
- The Vigil, A Poem in Four Voices, a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1993
- Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti, co-winner of the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986-87
- Long Walks in the Afternoon, the 1982 Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets
- National Endowment for the Arts Grant
- Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship
- Grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts
- "Earth Elegy," the title poem of New and Selected Poems, won The James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry
- "Archaeology" was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2001[5]
Works[edit]
- "Drifting Boat". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
- "Fox Fire at the Changing Tree". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
- "Next Morning Letter". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
- "Summer Birds and Flowers". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
Poetry Books[edit]
- Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, Louisiana State University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0807168202
- Broken Cup, Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0807156421
- Second Nature, Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0807136959
- One Body: poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0807-132401
- Gibson, Margaret (2003). Autumn Grasses. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2859-6.
- Icon and Evidence. Louisiana State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8071-2709-4.
- Earth Elegy, New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2146-7.
- Gibson, Margaret (1993). The Vigil, A Poem in Four Voices. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1868-9.
- Out in the Open. Louisiana State University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8071-1518-3.
- Gibson, Margaret (1986). Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1309-7.
- Long Walks in the Afternoon. Louisiana State University Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-8071-1018-8.
- Signs. Louisiana State University Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8071-0493-4.
- Lunes: poems. Some of Us Press. 1973.
Memoir[edit]
- The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood. University of Missouri Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8262-1783-7.
Anthologies[edit]
- Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1999). "Margaret Gibson". The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry. University of Arkansas Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9.
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- Joseph M. Flora; Amber Vogel; Bryan Albin Giemza, eds. (2006). Southern Writers. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3123-7.
References[edit]
- ^ Joseph M. Flora; Amber Vogel; Bryan Albin Giemza, eds. (2006). Southern Writers. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3123-7.
- ^ "Department of English | UConn". Archived from the original on 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
- ^ Dunne, Susan (April 3, 2019), "UConn professor Margaret Gibson named Connecticut's seventh poet laureate", Hartford Courant, retrieved 2019-06-01
- ^ "Margaret Gibson, Blackbird". www.blackbird.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ^ Henderson, Bill (2002-11-26). Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9781888889352.
