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 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 Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2029-2022) Margaret Gibson has been awarded an Academy of American Poets Grant for Poet Laureates. The grant is intended both to support Gibson's poetry and to allow her to fund various poetry projects from May 2020 to May 2021. As Poet Laureate, Gibson has taken as her social focus "Poetry and the Environment during Climate Crisis" and is funding videos of Connecticut poets reading their poems about the environment in natural settings and "Green Poetry Cafes"—activities which are, during the COVID times, mostly taking place on video. An anthology of CT poets writing about climate crisis will be published in April 2021.

Other poems by Margaret Gibson in Verse Daily:
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..."

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"A Good Death"
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