Regie Gibson, Literary Performer

Literary Performer, poet, and educator, Regie Gibson, has lectured & performed in the United States, Cuba, and Europe. Representing the U.S. in Italy, Regie competed for and received both the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone and The Europa in Versi Award in LaGuardia di Como. Himself and his work appear in love jones, a film based on events in his life. He is a National Poetry Slam Champion, has featured on HBO, several TED X events, and various NPR programs including On Point and Radio Boston. He’s served as consultant for both the National Endowment for the Arts “How Art Works” initiative and “The Mere Distinction of Color”: an exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier, examining the legacy of slavery. Regie has performed with and composed texts for The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale, and the Handel+Haydn Society. His volume of poems, “Storms Beneath the Skin” received the Golden Pen Award and his work appears in Poetry Magazine, Harvard’s Divinity Magazine, and The Iowa Review, among others. He’s received the Walker Scholarship for Poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, a YMCA Writer’s Fellowship, a Mass Cultural Council Poetry Award, a Lexington Education Foundation Grant, a Brother Thomas Fellowship,  two Live Arts Boston Grants to develop his first play, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae, two commissions to create texts for the World Bank regarding racism and climate justice, and an Eliot Norton  Theatre Award for “Best Ensemble” for the play “"Black Odyssey, Boston.” He performs regularly with Atlas Soul: a world music ensemble, Shakespeare to Hiphop, and is co-creator of the Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy: A multi-media performance focusing on the influence of William Shakespeare. He teaches for Clark University & lives in Lexington Massachusetts.