Sunday, June 13, 2021 - Robert Gibbons
/Robert Anthony Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse, Langston Hughes, and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Green Pavilion, Nomad's Choir, Brownstone Poets, Hydrogen JukeBox, Saturn Series, and Phoenix among other venues. His first book, Close to the Tree, was published by Three Rooms Press in 2012. Flight , his second book was published in 2019. Robert and visual artist, Amy Williams, recently collaborated on a new series of erasure poems and artworks inspired by the words of Zora Neale Hurston's writings from the Federal Writers' Project.
Robert has been published in over thirty literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits include Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, and the forthcoming Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts.
Robert teaches Literature at the City College of New York. He is a Cave Canem Fellow (2019-2021) and has received residencies from the Norman Mailer Foundation (2017) and the DISQUIET International Literary Program (2018). He completed his MFA at City College in 2018.
Robert lives in Brooklyn and continues to be active in the New York poetry scene.
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