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'''Christopher Gilbert''' (born August 1, 1949, [[Birmingham, Alabama]]-July 5, 2007) was an American [[poet]].<br />
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==Life==<br />
He is the son of Floyd and Rosie (Walker) Gilbert.{{cn|date=August 2022}}<br />
He grew up in [[Lansing, Michigan]].<br />
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He graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from [[Clark University]] in 1986.{{cn|date=August 2022}}<br />
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His work appears in ''African-American Literary Review'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aar.slu.edu/bkdescrb.html |title=SLU: African American Review - Back Issue Information - |accessdate=2009-06-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825205539/http://aar.slu.edu/bkdescrb.html |archivedate=2009-08-25 }}</ref> ''[[Callaloo (journal)|Callaloo]]'', ''Crab Apple Review'', ''[[Graham House Review]]'', ''[[Indiana Review]]'', ''[[Massachusetts Review]]'', ''[[Ploughshares]]'',<ref>[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=547 Author Details<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''Urbanus'', ''William & Mary Review'', and ''[[New York Quarterly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyquarterly.org/issues/?id=20|title = NYQ}}</ref><br />
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His poem ''Any Good Throat'', is on a monument in [[Jackson Square (MBTA station)|Jackson Square]], [[Boston]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nuweb.neu.edu/psullivan/jacksonone.html |title=Any Good Throat |accessdate=2009-06-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915103959/http://nuweb.neu.edu/psullivan/jacksonone.html |archivedate=2008-09-15 }}</ref><br />
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He lived in [[Providence, Rhode Island]].<ref>[http://www.pw.org/content/christopher_gilbert_1 Christopher Gilbert | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[1983 in poetry|1983]] [[List of winners of the Walt Whitman Award|Walt Whitman Award]]<br />
* [[1986 in poetry|1986]] [[The Frost Place]] poet in residence<br />
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==Works==<br />
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===Poetry===<br />
* {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZJJuywKJEIC&q=Christopher+Gilbert+poet+across&pg=PA6| chapter=Time with Stevie Wonder in It| title=The ringing ear| editor=Nikky Finney| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8203-2925-3 }}<br />
* {{cite book| title=Across the Mutual Landscape| publisher=Graywolf Press| year=1984| isbn=978-0-915308-48-4| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/acrossmutualland0000gilb}}<br />
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===Anthologies===<br />
* {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0gDLbXHAYwC&q=Christopher+Gilbert+poet&pg=PP11| title=The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry| editor=Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold| publisher=Oxford University Press| year=2006| isbn=978-0-19-512563-4 }}<br />
* {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/menofourtimeanth00mora| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/menofourtimeanth00mora/page/383 383]| quote=Christopher Gilbert poet.| title=Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America| editor=Fred Moramarco, Al Zolynas| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=1992| isbn=978-0-8203-2394-7 }}<br />
* {{cite book| title=The Jazz poetry anthology| editor=Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa| publisher=Indiana University Press| year=1991| isbn=978-0-253-20637-4| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/jazzpoetryanthol0000unse}}<br />
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[[Category:1949 births]]<br />
[[Category:2007 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Birmingham, Alabama]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Lansing, Michigan]]<br />
[[Category:University of Michigan alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Clark University alumni]]<br />
[[Category:American male poets]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Michigan]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Rhode Island]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Providence, Rhode Island]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Alabama]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century American poets]]<br />
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