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Reginald Gibbons [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Evanston, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
rgibbons@northwestern.edu
Bio: 

Reginald Gibbons has published eleven books of poems, including, most recently RENDITIONS (Four Way Books).  Two forthcoming books of poems will be published in 2024 (Finishing Line Press) and 2025 LSU Press). His volumes of poetry include his LAST LAKE (2016) and also CREATURES OF A DAY (Finalist for the National Book Award).  He has published two chapbooks, a novel (SWEETBITTER--a fourth edition to be published Aug. 1 2023 by JackLeg Press; 1995 winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), two collections of short fiction (most recently, AN ORCHARD IN THE STREET, BOA Editions 2017), numerous translations and edited books, and a book about poetry, HOW POEMS THINK (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015).  His translations include: Sophocles, SELECTED POEMS: ODES AND FRAGMENTS (Princeton Univ. Press); and (with co-translator Charles Segal) Sophocles' ANTIGONE and Euripides' BAKKHAI (Oxford Univ. Press), as well as translations of Spanish and Mexican poets. His translations of selected poems of Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva (with co-translator Ilya Kutik) are forthcoming.  At Northwestern University, he is a Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, emeritus; for many years he also taught in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He also helped found the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program (MFA+MA) at Northwestern, and was the editor of TriQuarterly magazine from 1981 till 1997.  See  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/r... [2] 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
Spanish
Twitter/X: 
@poemthink
Born in: 
Houston, TX
Texas
Raised in: 
Houston, TX
Texas
Website: 
https://www.english.northwestern.edu/peo… [3]
Prizes won: 

* Finalist, 2008 National Book Award in poetry * O. B. Hardison, Jr., Poetry Prize, Folger Shakespeare Library, 2004 * Fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts * Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (for SWEETBITTER); Texas Institute of Letters prizes for best novel (SWEETBITTER), best book of poems (IT'S TIME), best book of translation (SOPHOCLES, SELECTED POEMS: ODES AND FRAGMENTS), Best American Poetry, and others.

Prefers to work with: 
Any

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/reginald_gibbons [2] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/reginald-gibbons [3] https://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/gibbons.html