"CT State Poet Laureate" - Margaret Gibson, current State of Connecticut Poet
Laureate, is the author of 12 books of poems, all from LSU Press, most recently
Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, 2018. A
new book, The Glass Globe, is
forthcoming in the autumn of 2021. Awards include the Lamont Selection for Long
Walks in the Afternoon, her second book, 1982; the Melville Kane Award
(co-winner) for Memories of the Future,
(1986), and the Connecticut Book Award for One
Body, 2008. The Vigil was a
Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry in 1993. Broken Cup was a Finalist for 2016 Poets’ Prize, and the title poem
from the book won a Pushcart Prize for that year. “Passage,” from Not Hearing the Wood Thrush, was
included in The Best American Poetry,
2017. She has written a memoir, The
Prodigal Daughter, University of Missouri Press, 2008. Gibson is Professor
Emerita, University of Connecticut. She
lives in Preston, CT. As Poet Laureate, she has edited an anthology entitled Waking
Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis. The
anthology will be published in April 2021. For more information, visit her
website: www.margaretgibsonpoetry.com