We are thrilled to present Robert Gibbons in our Wednesday series of ten minute live Zoom readings.

7:30 - 7:40 pm (New York time)

Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro

The readings will be streamed live to our facebook page and you may also register to watch directly on Zoom. Event registration for Zoom viewing is available through Eventbrite.

Robert Gibbons, a native Floridian, came to New York City in 2007 in search of his muse Langston Hughes and found a vibrant contemporary poetry community at the Cornelia Street Cafe, the Green Pavilion, Nomad's Choir, Brownstone Poets, Hydrogen JukeBox, Saturn Series, and Phoenix among other venues. His first book, Close to the Tree, was published by the New York-based Three Rooms Press in 2012.

Robert worked as a Literature Professor at the City College of New York. He is a Cave Canem Fellow (2019-2021) and has received residencies from the Norman Mailer Foundation (2017) and the DISQUIET International Literary Program (2018). In 2018 he completed his MFA at City College.

Robert has been published in over thirty literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits include Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, and the forthcoming Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts. You can also find his work in the great weather for MEDIA anthologies Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea, Before Passing, and The Understanding between Foxes and Light.

Robert lives in Brooklyn and continues to be active in the New York poetry scene. Flight is his second poetry collection.