About me
Literary performer & educator, Regie Gibson, has lectured & performed in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. Representing the U.S., Regie competed for & received both the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone, Italy & the Europa en Versi Award for performance poetry in LaGuardia di Como, Italy. Himself & his work appear in "love jones”: a feature-film based on events in his life. He is a former National Poetry Slam Champion, has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, On Point, Radio Boston, & other NPR programs. Regie has featured at several TED X events & has been nominated for a Boston Emmy. He’s received the Walker Scholarship for Poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, multiple Mass Cultural Council Awards, the Lexington Education Foundation Grant, a YMCA Writer’s Fellowship & the Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation. He’s served as a consultant for both the National Endowment for the Arts “How Art Works” initiative & the “Mere Distinction of Color”: an exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier examining the legacy of slavery & the U.S. constitution. Regie has performed with & composed texts for, The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale & Handel+Haydn Society. He’s an actor & creator of The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy— a theatrical, literary-concert focusing on the life & works of William Shakespeare & has received two Live Arts Boston Grants from the Boston Foundation to develop his first musical-play, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae.. He’s been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard’s Divinity Magazine, & The Iowa Review, among others— and his volume of poems, “Storms Beneath the Skin” has received the Golden Pen Award. He has worked closely with Pablo Suarez works with members of the Red Cross-Red Crescent Climate Center (Boston University) to craft language regarding issues of climate change; & teaches in the Creative Writing department of Clark University & the Liberal Arts department at Berkeley College of Music.
