Heather June Gibbons and “Border Town”
Heather June Gibbons is an American poet whose debut collection Her Mouth as Souvenir won the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Utah Press. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including Best New Poets, Blackbird, Boston Review, Drunken Boat, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and West Branch.
Issue 20 records Gibbons under the title “Border Town.” The surviving page preserves the title and authorship while the poem text itself is absent. Her later work remains attentive to desire, loss, absurdity, urban life, voice, visibility, and the pressure of contemporary experience on lyric form.
Border Town
The surviving Issue 20 record preserves the title and author. The poem text is no longer present on the page.
Books, awards, and later work
Gibbons’s author biography documents her books, publications, Iowa Writers’ Workshop training, teaching, and fellowships. The University of Utah Press records Her Mouth as Souvenir as the winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, while Poets & Writers records the award and publication.