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Mark Gibbons Reads "Gimp O'Leary's Iron Works" by Ed Lahey

Mark Gibbons is the author of ten collections of poetry, his last four: Forgotten Dreams (2012) Shadowboxing (2014) The Imitation Blues (2017) and mostly cloudy (2020) from FootHills Publishing. In 2018 and 2019 he edited two books of poetry for Drumlummon Institute: Moving On: The Last Poems of Ed Lahey, and Summer Lightning, a collection of poems by Marylor Wilson. Recipient on a 2013 Artist Innovation Award from the MAC, Mark lives in Missoula with his wife, Pam, and their cat, Felix. A retired working class mule, he still teaches poetry for The Missoula Writing Collaborative, the Montana Arts Council, and continues to write.

Chris Maccini previously worked at SPR as Morning Edition host and producing arts and special programming such as The Bookshelf, Poetry Moment, Northwest Arts Review, special features and more.
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