Wednesday, April 22, 2009

i was over at the GROUP NEWS BLOG and read a great post there on april being, as you know, national poetry month.



i can not pick any one poem that shaped me or touched me but this poet and this book
has to be my all time favorite. the fact that he is from here and these poems are of us is just a bonus.



buy the book "the origins of evening". you won't be sorry. i promise.




Robert Gibb has published four selections of poetry, one of which, Momentary Days, won the Camden Poetry Award. His most recent collection, The Origins of Evening, was named Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series, and his first book, The Winter House, was a Devin's Award Finalist. One chapbook, The Names of the Earth in Summer, won Stone Country magazine's Tenth Anniversary Award Volume; another, A Geography of Common Names, was a Devil's Millhopper's Chapbook winner. Gibb is a winner of an NEA grant, three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grants, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in New Homestead, Pennsylvania.






The Origins of Evening (1998)

Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series


Also by Robert Gibb

- Fugue for a Late Snow
- Momentary Days
- The Winter House

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