Regie Gibson

Literary performer Regie Gibson has lectured and performed widely in the U.S., Cuba & Europe. Representing the U.S. in Italy, Regie competed for and received both the Absolute Poetry Award in Monfalcone and The Europa in Versi Award in LaGuardia di Como. He’s a Brother Thomas Fellow and has received two Live Arts Boston Grants to develop his first play, The Juke: A Blues Bacchae in which he intersects the ancient Greek tragedy with African American spiritual & musical culture. Regie has served as consultant for the NEA’s “How Art Works” commission and the “Mere Distinction of Color”: a permanent exhibit at James Madison’s Montpelier home focusing on American slavery and the U.S. constitution. He has composed texts for The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale, the Handel+Haydn Society, and has featured with the Lexington Symphony. He’s an actor and creator of The Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy — a theatrical, literary-concert focusing on the life & works of William Shakespeare and is the Artistic Director of Arts for Social Cohesion — a social transformation organization using arts and pedagogy to strengthen relationships within and between communities. He serves on the boards of the New England Poetry Club & Grub Street Writers and teaches at Berklee College of Music and Clark University. On May 30th, 2025 he was appointed by Governor Maura Healy to be the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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