Christopher Buckley (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.

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

 * "Sky", UPNE


 * Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-914278-53-5
 * Dark matter: poems, Copper Beach Press, 1993, ISBN	9780914278627
 * Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8101-5113-0
 * Greatest hits, 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-1-930755-49-9
 * And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN	9781931357333
 * Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-932195-68-2
 * Rolling the Bones: poems, UT Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59732-063-4

Memoir

 * Cruising state: growing up in southern California, University of Nevada Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-87417-247-8

Editor

 * How much earth: the Fresno poets, Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6
 * The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5