Christopher Gilbert
Christopher Gilbert (August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama – July 5, 2007) was an American poet.
Also recorded as Christopher Gallard Gilbert
Christopher Gilbert
- Born
- 1949 · Birmingham.
- Died
- 2007
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet
- Education
- University of Michigan · Clark University
- Languages
- English
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Christopher Gilbert (August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama – July 5, 2007) was an American poet.
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Christopher Gilbert (1949–2007) was an American poet. The poet was born in Birmingham.
Christopher Gilbert studied at Clark University and University of Michigan. The poet worked in Providence. Languages used include English.
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He was the son of Floyd and Rosie (Walker) Gilbert. He grew up in Lansing, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from Clark University in 1986. His work appears in African-American Literary Review, Callaloo, Crab Apple Review, Graham House Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Urbanus, William & Mary Review, and New York Quarterly. His poem Any Good Throat, is on a monument in Jackson Square, Boston. He lived in Providence, Rhode Island.
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• 1983 Walt Whitman Award • 1986 The Frost Place poet in residence
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