Mark Bibbins

Mark Bibbins (born 1968 in Albany, New York) is an American poet and received an MFA from The New School.

He received a Lambda Literary Award for his collection of poems Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press, 2003), and was awarded a 2005 Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

His 2020 book, 13th Balloon, is a book-length poem addressing the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s.^[1]

His 2014 book of poetry, They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full^[2] (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), examines power, sexuality, and gender.

He currently teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded LIT magazine, and Columbia University. He lives in New York.

Collections

• Sky Lounge (Graywolf Press, 2003)
• The Dance of No Hard Feelings (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)
• They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)
• 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press, 2020)

List of poems

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