Christopher Buckley (poet)
Christopher Buckley is an American poet.
Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA.
He taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Murray State University, West Chester University. and University of California, Riverside.
He married painter Nadya Brown.Awards
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Fulbright Award in Creative Writing
- four Pushcart Prizes
- 2001 and 1984 NEA grants in poetry
Works
- , UPNE
- Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990,
- Dark matter: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1993,
- , Northwestern University Press, 2001,
- , Pudding House Publications, 2001,
- And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006,
- Sleepwalk: California dreamin' and a last dance with the '60s, Eastern Washington University Press, 2006
- Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008,
- Rolling the Bones: poems, UT Press, 2009,
- One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology., Lynx House Press, 2012,
Memoir
- , University of Nevada Press, 1994,
Editor
- , Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001,
- , Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999,
