Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson is the author of a memoir, The Prodigal Daughter (University of Missouri Press, 2008) and eleven books of poems, all from LSU press, most recently One Body (2007), Second Nature (2010) and Broken Cup (2014). She lives in Preston, CT. and is Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut. For more information visit www.MargaretGibsonPoetry.com and https://wwwlfacebook.com/MargaretGibsonPoetry.
Reading List
Playing Mozart at the Town Dump
The concerto in D streams out the moon roof. Inside the car the air is ripe with Mozart, watermelon rind, cat litter, stale beer bottles, napkins infused with fish oil, pickle juice, loneliness, and a mouse nest I shook free …
Forgetting
Hayscent fern in one windowpane, rhododendron in another, red barn siding— you’re staring out the window, as if what you see out there might wake the inner word you want, that fugitive, unfaithful word wed now to silence. As we …
Working with Stone
Making a wall stone by stone as you used to relish doing, or stacking stone on stone in the woods to make a cairn, is like building a sentence word by word. If that’s so, this poem is a word …
Heaven
The leaves are turning, one by one carried away in the crisp wind. In one letter he penned Coleridge turned away, calling love a local anguish he meant to leave behind him. Away, away, says the blue and gold day, …