Christopher Gilbert


Christopher Gilbert was an American poet.

Life

He is the son of Floyd and Rosie Gilbert.
He grew up in Lansing, Michigan.
He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, and PhD. in psychology from Clark University in 1986.
His work appears in African-American Literary Review, Callaloo, Crab Apple Review, Graham House Review, Indiana Review, Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, Urbanus, William & Mary Review, and New York Quarterly.
His poem Any Good Throat, is on a monument in Jackson Square, Boston.
He lived in Providence, Rhode Island.

Awards

Poetry

ACROSS THE MUTUAL is a first collection of poems by a young black psychotherapist from a working-class background in Lansing, Mich., who acknowledges many musical influences but only a few literary ones. The book was chosen by Michael Harper for the 1983 Walt Whitman Award - a choice reflecting Mr. Harper's longstanding commitment to what is richest and most serious in black American poetry. Christopher Gilbert is a careful, craftsmanly writer. His subtle, syncopated rhythms make one think of jazz; but the syncopation is made audible, often, by the underlying presence of meter...