Reply Tuesday, April 27 at 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Meet Margaret Gibson, Connecticut State Poet Laureate, 2019-2022! She will be reading her poetry as well as talking about what it's like to be a Poet Laureate. Margaret Gibson is the author of 12 books of poems, most recently Not Hearing the Wood Thrush (2018.) Her new book, The Glass Globe, will be coming out later this year. Subscribe Long Walks in the Afternoon (1982) the Melville Kane Award (co-winner) for Memories of the Future, (1986), and the Connecticut Book Award for One Body (2008.) The Vigilwas a Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry in 1993. Broken Cup was a Finalist for 2016 Poets' Prize, and the title poem from the book won a Pushcart Prize for that year. "