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Dobby Gibson (born 1970) is an American poet. His first book of poetry, Polar, (Alice James Books, 2004) won the 2004 Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award. He is also author of Skirmish (2009) It Becomes You (2013), and Little Glass Plane (2019), all published by Graywolf Press.

Gibson's poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Fence, Iowa Review, New England Review, American Poetry Review, Conduit, among others publications. He is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the McKnight Foundation. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he earned a B.A. from Connecticut College in 1993 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University Bloomington in 1997. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Published works

Gibson, Dobby (2005). Polar. Alice James Books. ISBN 978-1-882295-49-4.

References

1. ^ "Polar". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08.
2. Gibson, Dobby (2009). Skirmish: Poems. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-515-9.
3. Gibson, Dobby (8 January 2013). It Becomes You. ISBN 978-1555976323.
4. Ploughshares, "Polar"
5. Gibson, Dobby (2009). Skirmish: Poems. . ISBN 978-1-55597-515-9.
6. Graywolf Press, "Skirmish" Archived May 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
7. Gibson, Dobby (2013). It Becomes You: Poems. . ISBN 978-1555976323.

External links

• All Things Considered Interview
• Poetry Foundation Biography
• Review: Dobby Gibson's Polar: Grab That Line and Hold On > by Erin Marsh
• Audio: Dobby Gibson Reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore
• Audio: Dobby Gibson' Fishousepoems" Page
• 2005 Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grants
• No Surrender
• Dobby Gibson reads for the Poem of the Day Podcast from InDigest

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