Christopher Gilbert (born August 1, 1949, Birmingham, Alabama-July 5, 2007) was an American poet.

Life

He is the son of Floyd and Rosie (Walker) Gilbert.^{[citation needed]} He grew up in Lansing, Michigan.

He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from Clark University in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

His work appears in African-American Literary Review,^[1] Callaloo, Crab Apple Review, Graham House Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares,^[2] Urbanus, William & Mary Review, and New York Quarterly.^[3]

His poem Any Good Throat, is on a monument in Jackson Square, Boston.^[4]

He lived in Providence, Rhode Island.^[5]

Awards

• 1983 Walt Whitman Award
• 1986 The Frost Place poet in residence

Works

Poetry

• Nikky Finney, ed. (2007). "Time with Stevie Wonder in It". The ringing ear. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2925-3.
• Across the Mutual Landscape. Graywolf Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-915308-48-4.

Anthologies

• Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, ed. (2006). The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512563-4.
• Fred Moramarco, Al Zolynas, ed. (1992). Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America. University of Georgia Press. p. 383. ISBN 978-0-8203-2394-7. Christopher Gilbert poet.
• Sascha Feinstein, Yusef Komunyakaa, ed. (1991). The Jazz poetry anthology. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20637-4.