Poetry With Christopher Buckley

Poet Christopher Buckley was raised in Santa Barbara, CA and educated at St. Mary’s College (BA), San Diego State University (MA), and the University of California Irvine (MFA). Buckley teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of eighteen books of poetry and his criticism, reviews, and interviews have appeared in numerous publications.

In addition, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry for 2007-2008 as well as NEA grants in 1984 & 2001, a Fulbright Award to Yugoslavia, four Pushcart Prizes, and the James Dickey Prize from Five Points Magazine in 2008.  He has twice received the Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America as well as the John Atherton Fellowship in Poetry to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and an artist’s residency at the Ucross Foundation.