Christopher Buckley (poet)

For other people of the same name, see Christopher Buckley.

Christopher Buckley (born 1948) is an American poet.

Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA. He taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Murray State University, West Chester University. and University of California, Riverside.^[1]

He married painter Nadya Brown.^[2]

Awards

• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship^[3]
• Fulbright Award in Creative Writing
• four Pushcart Prizes
• 2001 and 1984 NEA grants in poetry

Works

• "Sky", UPNE

• Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990, ISBN 9780914278535
• Dark matter: poems, Copper Beach Press, 1993, ISBN 9780914278627
• Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780810151130
• Greatest hits, 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2001, ISBN 9781930755499
• And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN 9781931357333
• Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008, ISBN 9781932195682

Memoir

• Cruising state: growing up in southern California, University of Nevada Press, 1994, ISBN 9780874172478

Editor

• How much earth: the Fresno poets, Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001, ISBN 9780966669176
• The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999, ISBN 9781890771195

References

1. ^ http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/buckley/index.html
2. ^ California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present, Editors Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, Jack Hicks, Heyday Books, 2004, ISBN 9781890771720
3. ^ http://newsroom.ucr.edu/news_item.html?action=page&id=1554

External links

• "Transparent Art: an interview with christopher buckley ", Chattahoochee Review

• Christopher Buckley's "Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Post Card" in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts

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Name	Buckley, Christopher
Alternative names	Poet
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Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	Arcata, California, United States
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