Raymond Carver Reading Series: Jules Gibbs

Jules Gibbs is the author of the poetry collections Snakes & Babies (2021) and Bliss Crisis (2012), both published by The Sheep Meadow Press, as well as a chapbook from Dancing Girl Press, The Bulk of the Mailable Universe (2011.) Her work was selected for the Best New Poets anthology, and has appeared in many journals and anthologies. She serves as the poetry editor for the national political magazine, The Progressive, as well as for Corresponding Voices, a bilingual magazine of cross-cultural and intersectional poetics based at Punto de Contacto Gallery, where she serves on the board of directors, and also curates the Cruel April reading series. Jules has won awards from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation in Poetry, and has been awarded fellowships from the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Jules has been a visiting professor at Hamilton College, has taught poetry and creative nonfiction at the Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, and has been a poet-in-residence in Syracuse and Houston city schools. She has taught literature and creative writing at Syracuse University since 2010, where she also serves as Vice President for Adjuncts United teachers’ union, representing the rights and interests of part-time faculty.

All readings are scheduled to be held in HBC Gifford Auditorium in a manner consistent with the campus COVID alert level and associated masking framework. Should the situation change, an update will be posted here.