C. S. Giscombe

C. S. Giscombe was born in 1950 in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated with degrees in English from University at Albany and Cornell University. At Cornell, he edited Epoch magazine.

His books include Similarly, Border Towns, Ohio Railroads, Prairie Style, Giscome Road, and Here. Giscombe is also the author of Into and Out of Dislocation, a travelogue-memoir in prose.

Giscombe’s honors and awards include the Stephen Henderson Award in Poetry, the American Book Award, and the Carl Sandburg Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Canadian Embassy.

He has taught at Cornell University, Syracuse University, Illinois State University, the New York State Poets-in-the-Schools Program, and Penn State. He currently teaches poetry at the University of California and lives in Berkeley.

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Burlington/Hurricane Tour

  Ithaca–Burlington–Rutland–Great Meadows–Hudson Falls–Albany; home on Amtrak. September 1985; 433 miles. Via Raleigh.     Comment: A return to places I’d been as a young person—Burlington, VT (having ranged first through Continue reading