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Literary performer & educator, Regie Gibson, is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He 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 featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, On Point, Radio Boston, & other NPR programs. Regie has presented 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, several Mass Cultural Council Awards, the Lexington Education Foundation Grant, a YMCA Writer’s Fellowship & the Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation. He served as a consultant for both the National Endowment for the Arts & the “Mere Distinction of Color”: an exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier home. Regie has performed with & composed texts for, The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale & Handel+Haydn Society. Regie has performed with & composed texts for, The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale & Handel+Haydn Society. He’s been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard’s Divinity Magazine, & The Iowa Review, among others. His volume of poems, “Storms Beneath the Skin” has received the Golden Pen Award. He is the Co-Artistic Director of Arts for Social Cohesion (ASC) employing artistic and pedagogical techniques to strengthen relationships within & between communities. Regie is an instructor at Clark University (Worcester) & an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music (Boston).
