Reginald Gibbons

Professor of English & Classics

University Hall Room 404
Telephone: (847) 491-5638
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: rgibbons@northwestern.edu

Reginald Gibbons (Ph.D Stanford University, Comparative Literature) is a poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English and Classics. In 2008 he will publish a new book of poems, Creatures of a Day (LSU) and a new book of translations, Selected Poems of Sophocles (Princeton); he is currently a columnist for American Poetry Review. From 1981 to 1997, he served as the editor of TriQuarterly magazine, an international journal of new writing, art and cultural inquiry published at Northwestern; during that time, in addition to general issues of the magazine, he published special issues of writing from South Africa, Spain, Poland and Mexico. He also co-founded and edited TriQuarterly Books, an imprint for contemporary writing at Northwestern University Press. His most recent poetry publications are two chapbooks, In the Warhouse (Fractal Edge, 2004) and Fern-Texts (Hollyridge, 2005). He has published seven poetry collections, most recently Sparrow: New and Selected Poems (LSU 1997), Homage to Longshot O'Leary (Holy Cow! Press 1999), and It's Time (LSU, 2002); a collection of short fiction, Five Pears or Peaches (Broken Moon Press 1991); a novel Sweetbitter (Penguin 1996); and other works. He has translated Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (California, 1977; reprint Sheep Meadow Press, 1999); Guillen on Guilen: The Poetry and the Poet (with A. L. Geist; Princeton, 1979); Euripides' Bakkhai (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001) and Sophokles' Antigone (Oxford, 2003), both of the latter with Charles Segal; he has edited The Poet's Work, (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1989) and, with Gerald Graff, Criticism in the University (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1985). Gibbons has also published numerous essays and reviews, held Guggenheim and NEA fellowships in poetry, and has won the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, the Carl Sandburg Prize, the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2004 O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, and other honors, among them the inclusion of his work in Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.

His most recent book (his thirtieth) is an edited collection of the autobiographical writings of William Goyen, Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews (forthcoming from University of Texas Press and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in 2007). His current projects include a work on twentieth-century and contemporary Russian poetry, co-authored with Ilya Kutik, including essays and translations; and a book of essays on poetry. He has recently published poems, translations and essays in Poetry, Iowa Review, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, New Literary History, and elsewhere. Gibbons teaches poetry, fiction, and literature courses. An abbreviated vita follows.

Abbreviated Curriculum Vita

Publications by Reginald Gibbons

It's Time

Homage to Longshot O'Leary

Sweetbitter: A Novel

Sophocles: Antigone (The Greek Tragedy in New Translation) (translated with Charles Segal)

Sparrow: New and Selected Poems

Euripides: Bakkhai (The Greek Tragedy in New Tanslations) (translated with Charles Segal

Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (translation)

The Poet's Work: Twenty Nine Masters of Twentieth Century Poetry on the Origins and Practice of Their Art

In The Warhouse

Fern-texts: Autobiographical Essay on the Notebooks of Young S. T. Coleridge (b. 1772)

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