Margaret Gibson

MARGARET GIBSON, Connecticut’s State Poet Laureate (2019-2022), has published 14 books of poems, all with LSU Press, most recently DRAW ME WITHOUT BOUNDARIES.  Awards: The Lamont Selection, Melville Kane Award, Connecticut Book Award (twice). She was a Finalist for the National Book Award, 1993, and for the Poets’ Prize, 2016.  With a grant from the Academy of American Poets, she edited an anthology, Waking Up to the Earth: Connecticut Poets in a Time of Global Climate Crisis.  Visit her website:  MargaretGibsonPoetry.com

  • In Praise of Transformations

    Not always dramatic.  Often soundless.