Center Stage
Sunday, Sept. 8th at 4pm

Reginald Gibbons has published 11 books of poems, including Creatures of a Day (Finalist for National Book Award), the novel Sweetbitter (Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), and two books of very short fiction, as well as many translations and co-translations of poetry from Spanish, ancient Greek, and Russian. He was a co-founder of the Guild Complex, and at Northwestern University he was a co-founder of the full-time and part-time MFA programs in writing. He has won fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, and awards from The Texas Institute of Letters and other institutions.