blackbird spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

NONFICTION

Margaret GibsonMARGARET GIBSON

   The Queen of Hearts

Margaret Gibson’s latest book of poetry, One Body, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University in October, 2007.  She is the author of eight previous collections: Autumn Grasses  (2003); Icon and Evidence (2001); Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems (1997); The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices (1993), a finalist for the National Book Award; Out in the Open (1989); Memories of the Future: The Daybooks of Tina Modotti (1986), co-winner of the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America; Long Walks in the Afternoon (1982), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets; and Signs (1979), all from Louisiana State University. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Gibson lives in Preston, Connecticut, where she is at work on a memoir, from which “Queen of Hearts” is taken, about her family and her adolescence in rural Virginia and Richmond.