writer, teacher, nonprofit leader.
My second book, published by CavanKerry Press in May, 2021. It’s available directly from the press, at PRINT: A Bookstore (where you can request a signed copy if you’re into that sort of thing), at Longfellow Books, at Bookshop.org, or wherever books are sold.
I like words and sentences. I collect them and write them and sometimes publish them in various places.
Maggie Smith chose a poem of mine for the 2025 Marvin Bell Memorial Prize.
Narrative Magazine recently featured my poem “Sounding.”
Broadsided recently featured my poem “Lorca says, the duende loves the rim of the wound” along with a dance performance by Lauren Woods.
My work appears in the anthologies Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family, Broadsided Press: Fifteen Yeas of Poetic and Artistic Collaboration, and Alive to This: Essays on Living Fully by 20 Maine Writers
My first book, which some people said nice things about. That’s a wonderfully strange Paul Klee sketch on the cover. You can find the book here.
Betsy Sholl writes, “I don’t know what to praise more, the vivid and bracing language of the poems in Deke Dangle Dive, or sense of life that language delivers, a life fully lived and examined in all its rich complexity…”
Of Death of a Ventriloquist, Brenda Shaughnessy writes, “Gibson Fay-LeBlanc is a new poet with an old voice, which is to say these poems feel timeless as well as freshly cut and just-sparked…”