Margaret Gibson, Poet Laureate of Connecticut (2019-2022) has published 13 books of poems, most recently The Glass Globe, the third book in a trilogy that includes Broken Cup and Not Hearing the Wood Thrush. A new book, DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, will arrive in September, 2024. AWARDS: The Lamont Selection, Melville Kane Award, Connecticut Book Award (twice). She was a Finalist for the National Book Award, 1993, and for the Poets’ Prize, 2016. With a grant from the Academy of American Poets, she edited an anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis.

Other poems by Margaret Gibson in Verse Daily:
July 15, 2020:   "Elegy, Immature Form" "Driving the two-lane southeastern artery..."
March 30, 2020:   "Greed" "Even the fox of legend knows..."
February 20, 2017:   "On the Moon" "When she said children's moon, I gasped..."
July 31, 2002:  "Pilgrimage" "Why do I take the back way..."

Books by Margaret Gibson:

Other poems on the web by Margaret Gibson:
Two poems
Eight poems
Three poems
"A Good Death"
Three poems

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