Dobby Gibson

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Dobby Gibson (born 1970) is an American poet. [1] His first book of poetry, Polar, (Alice James Books, 2004) won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. [1] He is also author of Skirmish (2009) [2] It Becomes You (2013), [3] and Little Glass Plane (2019), all published by Graywolf Press.

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Gibson's poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Conduit, among others publications. He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the McKnight Foundation. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University Bloomington in 1997. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. [1]

Published works

Gibson, Dobby (2005). Polar. Alice James Books. ISBN   978-1-882295-49-4. [4] [5] [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Polar". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08.
  2. Gibson, Dobby (2009). Skirmish: Poems. Graywolf Press. ISBN   978-1-55597-515-9.
  3. Gibson, Dobby (8 January 2013). It Becomes You. ISBN   978-1555976323.
  4. Ploughshares, "Polar"
  5. Gibson, Dobby (2009). Skirmish: Poems. [(Graywolf Press)]. ISBN   978-1-55597-515-9.
  6. Graywolf Press, "Skirmish" Archived May 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  7. Gibson, Dobby (2013). It Becomes You: Poems. [(Graywolf Press)]. ISBN   978-1555976323.