Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley’s 17th book of poetry, Rolling the Bones, won the 2009 Tampa Review Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Tampa Press in April 2010. Other recent books are Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007, published by Tupelo Press; Flying Backbone: The Georgia O’Keeffe Poems, 2008, Blue Light Press; And The Sea, (2006), The Sheep Meadow Press.

Buckley was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry for 2007-2008 and was awarded the James Dickey Prize for 2008 from Five Points Magazine. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia; four Pushcart Prizes; two awards from the Poetry Society of America; and NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984. Other awards include the City Works National Writers Award for 2006 from San Diego City College and the Kenneth O. Hansen and Vi Gale poetry awards from HUBBUB magazine.

His first book of creative nonfiction, Cruising State: Growing up in Southern California was published in 1994. A second collection, Sleep Walk, was published by Eastern Washington University Press, 2006.  In 2001, he published Appreciations: Selected Reviews, Views, & Interviews—1975-2000, Mille Grazie Press.

With Gary Young, Buckley is the editor of and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place (Hey Day Books 1999). With David Oliveira and M.L. Williams, he is editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (The Round House Press, 2001). For the University of Michigan Press’ Under Discussion series, he edited The Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, 1991.

Recently he edited the poetry anthologies, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems & Poetics from California (with Gary Young) Alcatraz Editions, 2008; Homage to Vallejo, Greenhouse Review Press, 2006; and, with Alexander Long, he edited A Condition Of The Spirit: The Life And Work Of Larry Levis, Eastern Washington University Press, 2004. Due in January 2011 is Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, edited with Christopher Howell from The Backwaters Press.

Over the last 30 years his poetry has appeared in such literary journals as APR, Poetry, Field, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Five Points, & New Letters among others. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Santa Monica Review, River City, Crazyhorse, The Florida Review, The Cimarron Review, and Denver Quarterly.
 

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Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley’s 17th book of poetry, Rolling the Bones, won the 2009 Tampa Review Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Tampa Press in April 2010. Other recent books are Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007, published by Tupelo Press; Flying Backbone: The Georgia O’Keeffe Poems, 2008, Blue Light Press; And The Sea, (2006), The Sheep Meadow Press.

Buckley was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry for 2007-2008 and was awarded the James Dickey Prize for 2008 from Five Points Magazine. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia; four Pushcart Prizes; two awards from the Poetry Society of America; and NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984. Other awards include the City Works National Writers Award for 2006 from San Diego City College and the Kenneth O. Hansen and Vi Gale poetry awards from HUBBUB magazine.

His first book of creative nonfiction, Cruising State: Growing up in Southern California was published in 1994. A second collection, Sleep Walk, was published by Eastern Washington University Press, 2006.  In 2001, he published Appreciations: Selected Reviews, Views, & Interviews—1975-2000, Mille Grazie Press.

With Gary Young, Buckley is the editor of and The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place (Hey Day Books 1999). With David Oliveira and M.L. Williams, he is editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (The Round House Press, 2001). For the University of Michigan Press’ Under Discussion series, he edited The Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, 1991.

Recently he edited the poetry anthologies, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems & Poetics from California (with Gary Young) Alcatraz Editions, 2008; Homage to Vallejo, Greenhouse Review Press, 2006; and, with Alexander Long, he edited A Condition Of The Spirit: The Life And Work Of Larry Levis, Eastern Washington University Press, 2004. Due in January 2011 is Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees, edited with Christopher Howell from The Backwaters Press.

Over the last 30 years his poetry has appeared in such literary journals as APR, Poetry, Field, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Five Points, & New Letters among others. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Santa Monica Review, River City, Crazyhorse, The Florida Review, The Cimarron Review, and Denver Quarterly.

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