Margaret Gibson (born 1944 in
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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) is an American
poet
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.
Life
Margaret Gibson grew up in
Richmond, Virginia
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, and was educated at
Hollins College, and the
University of Virginia
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. She went to
Yaddo
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in 1975.
Gibson is Professor Emerita at the
University of Connecticut
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.
She was named to a three-year term as
Poet Laureate of Connecticut in 2019.
Gibson was married to the late
David McKain
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, poet and author. She lives in
Preston, Connecticut
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.
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
Works
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Poetry Books
* ''Not Hearing the Wood Thrush,'' Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
*''Broken Cup,'' Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
*''Second Nature,'' Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
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References
External links
"A Reading by Margaret Gibson", ''Blackbird Magazine'', June 14, 2002
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Hollins University alumni
University of Virginia alumni
University of Connecticut faculty
1944 births
Living people
Writers from Richmond, Virginia
Poets from Philadelphia
People from Preston, Connecticut
American women poets
Poets laureate of Connecticut
American women academics
21st-century American women