Margaret Gibson (poet)

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

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

• "Drifting Boat". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n1/poetry/gibson_m/boat.htm. 
• "Fox Fire at the Changing Tree". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n1/poetry/gibson_m/fire.htm. 
• "Next Morning Letter". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n1/poetry/gibson_m/letter.htm. 
• "Summer Birds and Flowers". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n1/poetry/gibson_m/birds.htm. 

Poetry Books

• One body: poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2007. 
• Gibson, Margaret (2003). Autumn Grasses. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807128596. http://books.google.com/?id=_TUY7T-uz_IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Margaret+Gibson+poet. 
• Icon and Evidence. Louisiana State University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780807127094. 
• Earth Elegy, New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780807121467. 
• Gibson, Margaret (1993). The Vigil, A Poem in Four Voices. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807118689. http://books.google.com/?id=a9LiMiN0vhgC&pg=PP1&dq=Margaret+Gibson+poet. 
• Out in the Open. Louisiana State University Press. 1989. ISBN 9780807115183. 
• Gibson, Margaret (1986). Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807113097. http://books.google.com/?id=AyvhyCD0lAEC&dq=Margaret+Gibson+(poet)&printsec=frontcover. 
• Long Walks in the Afternoon. Louisiana State University Press. 1982. ISBN 9780807110188. 
• Signs. Louisiana State University Press. 1979. ISBN 9780807104934. 
• Lunes: poems. Some of Us Press. 1973. 

Memoir

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

Anthologies

• Leon Stokesbury, ed (1999). "Margaret Gibson". The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781557285799. http://books.google.com/?id=m1e7kg3uM7EC&pg=PA114&dq=Margaret+Gibson+poet. 
• Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, Bryan Albin Giemza, ed (2006). Southern Writers. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807131237. http://books.google.com/?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA153&dq=Margaret+Gibson+poet. 

References

1. ^ Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, Bryan Albin Giemza, ed (2006). Southern Writers. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807131237. http://books.google.com/?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PA153&dq=Margaret+Gibson+poet. 
2. ^ http://english.uconn.edu/bookshelf/
3. ^ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n1/poetry/gibson_m/gibson_m.htm
4. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=IQuRkNfSw7IC&q=Margaret+Gibson+poet+icons&dq=Margaret+Gibson+poet+icons&lr=&pgis=1

External links

• "A Reading by Margaret Gibson", Blackbird Magazine, June 14, 2002

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