Gibbons, Reginald.

Award winning poet, editor, and professor, Reginald Gibbons was born in Houston January 7, 1947, to a Polish mother and an Irish-Choctaw father. Gibbons was a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford. He came to Northwestern as the editor of TriQuarterly in 1981 and also began teaching English literature classes at Northwestern at this time. He was an accomplished poet, publishing throughout his career.

Graduating magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1969 with a degree in Spanish and Portuguese and receiving the Morris Croll Prize in Poetry, Gibbons proceeded to Stanford where he graduated with his MA in English and Creative Writing in 1971, and his PhD in Comparative Literature - Poetry from 1850 to Present in Romance Languages and English the subject of his dissertation - in 1974. Between 1975 and 1981, Gibbons taught courses in Spanish and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Princeton University and Columbia University.

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