Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley (born 1948) is an American poet.

Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA. He taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Murray State University, West Chester University, and University of California, Riverside.

He married painter Nadya Brown.

Awards 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Fulbright Award in Creative Writing four Pushcart Prizes 2001 and 1984 NEA grants in poetry

Works Blossoms & Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Vanderbilt University Press, 1988, Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990, Dark matter: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1993, Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001, Greatest hits, 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2001, And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, Sleepwalk: California dreamin' and a last dance with the '60s, Eastern Washington University Press, 2006 Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008, Rolling the Bones: poems, UT Press, 2009, One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology., Lynx House Press, 2012,

Memoir Cruising state: growing up in southern California, University of Nevada Press, 1994,

Editor

Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets (Interviews & Essays. edited by Christopher Buckley (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021) Condition of the Spirit - The Life and Work of Larry Levis. edited by Christopher Buckley & Alexander Long (Eastern Washington University, 2004) How much earth: the Fresno poets, Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001, The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999,