Margaret Gibson, GPC 2007-2008 & 1998-1999
Margaret Gibson is the author of ten
books of poetry, including Long
Walks in the Afternoon, winner of the 1982
Lamont Prize; The
Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices, a finalist for the
National Book Award in 1993; Earth Elegy:
New and Selected Poems in 1997; Autumn
Grasses in 2003; and One
Body of 2007, which won the Connecticut Book Award
in 2008. As Shannon Ravenel confirms, “Margaret Gibson's evocation of urban
southern society in the 1950s is so on target it's scary. This is a brilliant
book.” The recipient of an NEA grant, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest
Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prizes, Gibson is presently Professor Emeritus of
English at the University of Connecticut and lives in Preston, Connecticut.
Additional Links:
“Drifting Boat.”
Blackbird. Spring 2002 Vol. 1 No. 1.
“For Fire at the Changing
Tree.” Blackbird. Spring 2002 Vol. 1 No. 1.
“Next Morning Letter.”
Blackbird. Spring 2002 Vol. 1 No. 1.
“Summer Birds and
Flowers.” Blackbird. Spring 2002 Vol. 1 No. 1.