Margaret Gibson (poet)

Margaret Gibson (poet)

Margaret Gibson (born 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet.

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Life

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 has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Connecticut since 1993.[2]

Gibson is married to the writer David McCain, and lives in Preston, Connecticut.[3]

Awards

  • 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[4]

Works

Poetry Books

Memoir

  • The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood. University of Missouri Press. 2008. ISBN 9780826217837. 

Anthologies

References

External links


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