Christopher Buckley (poet)
Christopher Buckley | |
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| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) Arcata, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Poet |
Christopher Buckley (born 1948) is an American poet.
Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA. He taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Murray State University, West Chester University, and University of California, Riverside.[1]
He married painter Nadya Brown.[2]
Awards
[edit]- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship[3]
- Fulbright Award in Creative Writing
- four Pushcart Prizes
- 2001 and 1984 NEA grants in poetry
Works
[edit]- Blossoms & Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Vanderbilt University Press, 1988, ISBN 0826512321
- Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990, ISBN 9780914278535
- Dark matter: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1993, ISBN 9780914278627
- Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8101-5113-0
- Greatest hits, 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-1-930755-49-9
- And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN 9781931357333
- Sleepwalk: California dreamin' and a last dance with the '60s, Eastern Washington University Press, 2006
- Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-932195-68-2
- Rolling the Bones: poems, UT Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59732-063-4
- One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology., Lynx House Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-89924-126-5
Memoir
[edit]- Cruising state: growing up in southern California, University of Nevada Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-87417-247-8
Editor
[edit]- Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets (Interviews & Essays. edited by Christopher Buckley (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021) ISBN 9781622889044
- Condition of the Spirit - The Life and Work of Larry Levis. edited by Christopher Buckley & Alexander Long (Eastern Washington University, 2004) ISBN 9780910055925
- How much earth: the Fresno poets, Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6
- The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5
References
[edit]- ^ "UCR: Department of Creative Writing". Archived from the original on 2019-04-11. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present, Editors Dana Gioia, Chryss Yost, Jack Hicks, Heyday Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-890771-72-0
- ^ "UCR Newsroom: Home".
External links
[edit]- "Transparent Art: an interview with christopher buckley ", Chattahoochee Review
- "Katmandu Ars Poetica", Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
- Christopher Buckley's "Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Post Card" in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts
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Categories:
- 1948 births
- Living people
- People from Arcata, California
- 20th-century American poets
- Saint Mary's College of California alumni
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- California State University, Fresno faculty
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- San Diego State University alumni
- Murray State University faculty
- West Chester University faculty
- University of California, Riverside faculty
- 21st-century American poets