About Christopher Gilbert
Lived 1949 – 2007 (aged 57). Christopher Gilbert was an American poet.
Christopher Gilbert (August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama – July 5, 2007) was an American poet.
Life 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.
Awards 1983 Walt Whitman Award 1986 The Frost Place poet in residence
Works
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American writer (1949-2007)
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Christopher Gilbert was born on 1 August 1949 in Birmingham.
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Christopher Gilbert died on 5 July 2007.
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