Spring 2009, Volume 6

Frank X. Gaspar, Advisor and Poet-in-Residence


Frank Gaspar

Frank X. Gaspar is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently, A Field Guide to the Heavens (Brittingham Prize 1999) and Night of a Thousand Blossoms (Alice James Books, 2004—named by Library Journal as one of the twelve best poetry collections of the year). He is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and a California Arts Council Fellowship. His poetry is widely anthologized and appears in Best American Poetry of 1996 and 2000.  His novel Leaving Pico (Hardscrabble Books 1999) was a Barnes and Noble Discovery Award winner, a Borders Book of Distinction, and won the California Book Award for First Fiction. Currently, he is attending a reading in his honor as a Portugese/American writer at the Kennedy Library in Boston, where they are re-issuing his first book of poems "The Holyoke." Born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, he now lives in Southern California.