Reginald Gibbons is a poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English, Classics, and Spanish and Portuguese. In 2008 he published a new book of poems, Creatures of a Day (LSU Press, 2008), which was a Finalist for the 2008 National Book Award in poetry. New books: Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and a bilingual selection of poems, Desde una barca de papel (Littera Libros, 2010).
In 2008 he also published a volume of new translations of Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (Princeton); from 2006 to 2009 he was a columnist for American Poetry Review.
UPCOMING READINGS:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011, 10:30 a.m., Highland Park Public Library (Highland Park, Ill.)
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011, with CORNELIA SPELMAN, Society of Midland Authors, Cliff Dwellers Club, 22nd floor, 200 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL (free and open to the public; social hour begins at 6:00 PM, program at 7:00)
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011, 3 p.m. University of Illinois at Chicago, Program for Writers, One-on-One Colloquium: Reginald Gibbons and Matthew Corey, Department of English Conference Room, University Hall UH2028.
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 2011, 7:00 p.m., The Poetry Foundation, "Poetry Off the Shelf," with musicians Ari Brown and Mabel Kwan, and poets Christina Pugh, Ed Roberson, and Rachel Jamison Webster, Curtiss Hall, 410 S. Michigan Ave. (the Fine Arts Building), admission = $20; $10 for students and seniors.
JUNE 30 - JULY 9, 2011, summer residency, MFA Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa NC. The schedule of all readings will be posted at www.warren-wilson.edu/~mfa/
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Among 2009 "Chicagoans of the Year" in the arts, Chicago Tribune.
Photo at http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-20091226-chicagoans-2009...
Los Angeles Times: "Reginald Gibbons Finds Poetry in Chicago," Dec. 30, 2009, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-chicago-poet30-2009dec30...
Recent interview, WGN-TV: http://www.wgntv.com/videobeta/99d9bce4-2b4d-442d-bc88-474d2fb43809/News...
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