Background
He was born to a family of steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania, a mill town six miles south of downtown Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River.
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Robert Gibb
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Gibb earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Kutztown University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1974, and his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy at Lehigh University in 1976 and 1986 respectively.
Career
lieutenant, along with his next two books, comprise what Gibb calls The Homestead Trilogy, a nearly 100-poem cycle probing the fading industrial history and culture of America"s Steel City. The town was home to Andrew Carnegie"s famous Homestead Steel and site of the infamous Homestead Strike. Move over, John Edgar Wideman.
Poet Robert Gibb"s "The Homestead Trilogy," now completed, takes its place alongside "The Homewood Trilogy" in the canon of Pittsburgh literature.
Achievements
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Gibb won the 1997 National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Origins of Evening. World Over Water concludes a fiercely ambitious cycle of Pittsburgh poems -- nearly 100 in all -- in the project Gibb began 10 years ago with "The Origins Of Evening," selected by Eavan Boland as winner of the 1997 National Poetry Series and published by Norton.
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