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To spend time in the poetry of Margaret Gibson is to be drawn into an especially vibrant kind of stillness. Through precise, tender, and earthy language, through meditations of the cycles of the natural world and our place in it, her poems move us into the presence of the holy.

Gibson has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship, and grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes and the James Boatright Poetry Prize. She is Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut. Margaret Gibson grew up in Richmond, Virginia; she now lives in Preston, Connecticut.

These poems were recorded at the 2008 Glen Workshop.

Bibliography (poetry)

• One Body (2007)
• Long Walks in the Afternoon, the Lamont Selection, 1982
• Memories of the Future: The Daybooks of Tina Modotti, 1986, winner of the Melville Cane Award given by the Poetry Society of America, 1986-7
• Out in the Open, 1989
• The Vigil, a Finalist in 1993 for the National Book Award
• Earth Elegy, New and Selected Poems, 1997
• Icon and Evidence (2001) and Autumn Grasses (2003), finalists for the Connecticut Center for the Book Award in Poetry in 2002 and 2004.

Her memoir, The Prodigal Daughter, Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood, was published by University of Missouri Press in March 2008.