Christopher Gilbert
Appearance
Christopher Gilbert (born August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama-July 5, 2007) was an American poet.
Life
[edit]He is the son of Floyd and Rosie (Walker) Gilbert.[citation needed] He grew up in Lansing, Michigan.
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from Clark University in 1986.[citation needed]
His work appears in African-American Literary Review,[1] Callaloo, Crab Apple Review, Graham House Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares,[2] Urbanus, William & Mary Review, and New York Quarterly.[3]
His poem Any Good Throat, is on a monument in Jackson Square, Boston.[4]
He lived in Providence, Rhode Island.[5]
Awards
[edit]- 1983 Walt Whitman Award
- 1986 The Frost Place poet in residence
Works
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Nikky Finney, ed. (2007). "Time with Stevie Wonder in It". The ringing ear. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2925-3.
- Across the Mutual Landscape. Graywolf Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-915308-48-4.
Anthologies
[edit]- Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed. (2006). The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512563-4.
- Fred Moramarco, Al Zolynas, ed. (1992). Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America. University of Georgia Press. p. 383. ISBN 978-0-8203-2394-7.
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- Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa, ed. (1991). The Jazz poetry anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20637-4.
References
[edit]- ^ "SLU: African American Review - Back Issue Information -". Archived from the original on 2009-08-25. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ Author Details
- ^ "NYQ".
- ^ "Any Good Throat". Archived from the original on 2008-09-15. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ Christopher Gilbert | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers
Categories:
- 1949 births
- 2007 deaths
- Writers from Birmingham, Alabama
- Writers from Lansing, Michigan
- University of Michigan alumni
- Clark University alumni
- American male poets
- Poets from Michigan
- Poets from Rhode Island
- Writers from Providence, Rhode Island
- Poets from Alabama
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American male writers