Reginald Gibbons

Reginald Gibbons (born 1947) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English, Classics, and Spanish and Portuguese at the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies. Gibbons has also published numerous essays and reviews, held Guggenheim and NEA fellowships in poetry, and has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2004 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His book, Creatures of a Day, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for poetry. His most recent book is Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (2010).

Career

Lecturer in creative writing, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), 1976-1980
Professor of English, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), 1981-
Editor of TriQuarterly literary magazine, 1981-1997
Core faculty member of MFA Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC), 1989-
Co-founder and member of the board of directors, Guild Complex, 1989-

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Roofs Voices Roads. (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1979).
The Ruined Motel. (Houghton, 1981).
Saints. (Persea Books, 1986).
Maybe It Was So. (University of Chicago Press, 1991). ISBN 978-0-226-29056-0
Sparrow: New and Selected Poems. (LSU Press, 1997). ISBN 978-0-8071-2232-7
Homage to Longshot O'Leary: Poems. (Holy Cow! Press, 1999).
It's Time: Poems. (LSU Press, 2002). ISBN 978-0-8071-2815-2
Creatures of a Day: Poems. (LSU Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-8071-3318-7
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories. (University of Chicago Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0-226-29058-4

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