Margaret Gibson (poet)

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

Life[edit]

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 is Professor Emerita at The University of Connecticut.^[2]

She was named to a three-year term as Poet Laureate of Connecticut in 2019.^[3]

Gibson was married to the late David McKain, poet and author. She lives in Preston, Connecticut.^[4]

Awards[edit]

• 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^[5]

Works[edit]

• "Drifting Boat". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
• "Fox Fire at the Changing Tree". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
• "Next Morning Letter". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.
• "Summer Birds and Flowers". Blackbird Magazine. Spring 2002.

Poetry Books[edit]

• Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, Louisiana State University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0807168202
• Broken Cup, Louisiana State University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0807156421
• Second Nature, Louisiana State University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0807136959
• One Body: poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0807-132401
• Gibson, Margaret (2003). Autumn Grasses. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2859-6.
• Icon and Evidence. Louisiana State University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8071-2709-4.
• Earth Elegy, New and Selected Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2146-7.
• Gibson, Margaret (1993). The Vigil, A Poem in Four Voices. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1868-9.
• Out in the Open. Louisiana State University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8071-1518-3.
• Gibson, Margaret (1986). Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-1309-7.
• Long Walks in the Afternoon. Louisiana State University Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-8071-1018-8.
• Signs. Louisiana State University Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8071-0493-4.
• Lunes: poems. Some of Us Press. 1973.

Memoir[edit]

• The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood. University of Missouri Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8262-1783-7.

Anthologies[edit]

• Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1999). "Margaret Gibson". The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry. University of Arkansas Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9. Margaret Gibson poet.
• Joseph M. Flora; Amber Vogel; Bryan Albin Giemza, eds. (2006). Southern Writers. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3123-7.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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