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Name
  
Dobby Gibson


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
Indiana University Bloomington, Connecticut College

Books
  
It Becomes You: Poems, Skirmish: Poems, Polar

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Dobby Gibson (born 1970) is an American poet. 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. He is also the author of a second collection of poetry, Skirmish (Graywolf Press, 2009). A third collection, "It Becomes You" (Graywolf Press) is forthcoming in January 2013.

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Gibson's poetry has appeared in many publications: Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, Conduit, among others. 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 in 1997. He currently lives in Minneapolis.

the painter a poem by dobby gibson adapted for motionpoems by mark rubbo


Published works

Gibson, Dobby (2005). Polar. Alice James Books. ISBN 978-1-882295-49-4. 

References

Dobby Gibson Wikipedia