Christopher Gilbert (born August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American poet.

Contents 1 Life 2 Awards 3 Works 3.1 Poetry 3.2 Anthologies 4 Reviews 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Life

He is the son of Floyd and Rosie (Walker) Gilbert.^[1] He grew up in Lansing, Michigan.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from Clark University in 1986.^[2]

He work appears in African-American Literary Review,^[3] Callaloo, Crab Apple Review, Graham House Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares,^[4] Urbanus, William & Mary Review, New York Quarterly,^[5]

His poem Any Good Throat, is on a monument in Jackson Square, Boston^[6]

He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.^[7]

[edit] Awards

• 1983 Walt Whitman Award

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

• Nikky Finney, ed (2007). "Time with Stevie Wonder in It". The ringing ear. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820329253. http://books.google.com/books?id=mZJJuywKJEIC&pg=PA6&dq=Christopher+Gilbert+poet+across&lr=. 

• Across the Mutual Landscape. Graywolf Press. 1984. ISBN 9780915308484. 

[edit] Anthologies

• Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed (2006). The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195125634. http://books.google.com/books?id=l0gDLbXHAYwC&pg=PP11&lpg=PP11&dq=Christopher+Gilbert+poet&source=bl&ots=LWzd90ogqE&sig=tNcG85NBrz6kYKghg_aPEArzGu8&hl=en&ei=W5M5SrG4AZHTlAeS-_X0DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4. 
• Fred Moramarco, Al Zolynas, ed (1992). Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820323947. http://books.google.com/books?id=pyn6i_R1IPEC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=Christopher+Gilbert+poet&source=bl&ots=3cKYY9EZNE&sig=zsIxPgqu0kjwyqclQqH-GjCLxkc&hl=en&ei=W5M5SrG4AZHTlAeS-_X0DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8. 
• Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa, ed (1991). The Jazz poetry anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253206374. 

[edit] Reviews

ACROSS THE MUTUAL LANDCAPE is a first collection of poems by a young black psychotherapist from a working-class background in Lansing, Mich., who acknowledges many musical influences but only a few literary ones. The book was chosen by Michael Harper for the 1983 Walt Whitman Award - a choice reflecting Mr. Harper's longstanding commitment to what is richest and most serious in black American poetry. Christopher Gilbert is a careful, craftsmanly writer. His subtle, syncopated rhythms make one think of jazz; but the syncopation is made audible, often, by the underlying presence of meter...^[8]

[edit] References

[edit] External links