Christopher Buckley (poet) explained

Christopher Buckley
Birth Place:	Arcata, California, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet

Christopher Buckley (born 1948) 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.^[1]

He married painter Nadya Brown.^[2]

Awards

• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship^[3]
• Fulbright Award in Creative Writing
• four Pushcart Prizes
• 2001 and 1984 NEA grants in poetry

Works

• Blossoms & Bones: On the Life and Work of Georgia O'Keeffe, Vanderbilt University Press, 1988,
• Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990,
• Dark matter: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1993,
• Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001,
• Greatest hits, 1978-2000, 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

• Cruising state: growing up in southern California, University of Nevada Press, 1994,

Editor

• Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets (Interviews & Essays. edited by Christopher Buckley (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021)
• Condition of the Spirit - The Life and Work of Larry Levis. edited by Christopher Buckley & Alexander Long (Eastern Washington University, 2004)
• How much earth: the Fresno poets, Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001,
• The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999,

External links

• "Transparent Art: an interview with christopher buckley ", Chattahoochee Review
• "Katmandu Ars Poetica", Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
• Christopher Buckley's "Note to Gerald Stern Too Long for the Post Card" in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts

Notes and References

1. Web site: UCR: Department of Creative Writing . 2010-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190411230833/https://creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/buckley/index.html . 2019-04-11 . dead .
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&q=Christopher+Buckley+%28poet%29 California poetry: from the Gold Rush to the present
3. Web site: UCR Newsroom: Home.