Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley's most recent poetry books are Sky, The Sheep Meadow Press, 2004, and And the Sea, The Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, his 14th book of poetry. "Fame & Fortune, or, I am not Christopher Buckley" is from Sleepwalk, Eastern Washington University Press, 2006. Recently he has edited the poetry anthology, Homage To Vallejo, Greenhouse Review Press, 2006. And, with Alexander Long, he has edited A Condition Of The Spirit: The Life And Work Of Larry Levis, published by Eastern Washington University Press, 2004. Over the last 25 years his poetry has appeared in such literary journals as American Poetry Review, 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, and New Letters among others. He has received a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia, four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, and is the recipient of NEA grants in poetry for 2001 and 1984. He teaches in the creative writing Program at the University of California Riverside.

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