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Reginald Gibbons

 

Mailing Address:
1428 Crain St.
Evanston, IL 60202

County: Cook

e-mail: rgibbons@nwu.edu

 

Phone:
work: 847/467-1066
home: 847/869-2558
fax: 847/328-6744

Genre: Poetry/fiction

Recent Periodical Publications:
Recent poetry and fiction have appeared in such journals as American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Story Quarterly, Literary Imagination, etc.

Recent Book Publications:
Homage to Longshot O’Leary (poems), Holy Cow! Press, 1999.
Sparrow: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1997
Sweetbitter (novel), Penguin, 1996
Maybe It Was So (poems), University of Chicago Press, 1991
It's Time (poems), LSU Press, 2002
Euripides, Bakkhai(translations), Oxford, 2001

Forthcoming Publications:
Translation with Charles Segal of Sophocles’ Antigone, Oxford University Press, 2003

Awards & Fellowships:
Awards and fellowships include the Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Anisfield -Wolf Book Award (for Sweetbitter), Jesse Jones Award for Best Novel (for Sweetbitter), Pushcart Prize, Best American Poetry 1996, Carl Sandburg Award, and others

Recent Readings:
Warren Wilson College, Summer residency, MFA Program for Writers, July 2002
Michigan City Public Library, October 2002
Bridge magazine (Chicago), November 2002

Recent Workshops:
Poetry & fiction workshop at Warren Wilson College (Swannanoa, NC), MFA Program for Writers, July 2002

Available year-round for readings, lectures, master classes, and workshops throughout the state.

Fees:
Performance: $500 to $1500
Performance plus educational activities: $750 to $2500

Preferred audience: All audiences

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