Gary Gildner, GPC 2003-2004
Gary
Gildner's 22 published books include Cleaning
a Rainbow: Poems, Blue
Like the Heavens: New & Selected Poems; Somewhere Geese are Flying: New &
Selected Stories; The
Second Bridge;My
Grandfather's Book; The
Bunker in the Parsley Fields, which received the 1996 Iowa Poetry
Prize, and a memoir, The
Warsaw Sparks. He has also received a National Magazine Award for
Fiction, Pushcart Prizes in fiction and non-fiction, the Robert Frost
Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes, and
two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Gildner has been the
writer-in-residence at Reed College, Davidson College, Seattle University, and
Michigan State University, and has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to Poland
and Czechoslovakia. He has given readings of his work at the Library of
Congress, the Academy of American Poets, YM-YWHA (New York), Manhattan Theatre
Club, and at some 300 colleges and schools in the U.S. and abroad.
Additional Links:
“First Practice.”
Writer’s Almanac. May
2003, (Audio and Text)
“Weak Strong.” Verse Daily. 2007
A complete list of Gary Gildner’s works.