{"id":1372,"date":"2016-04-25T14:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2018-04-17T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T21:37:40","slug":"ghigna-charles-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"GHIGNA, CHARLES, 1946-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Poet; children’s author; \u00a0teacher of writing. \u00a0Born– August 25, 1946, in Bayside, Queens, New York City. Parents– Charles Vincent and Patricia (Pelletier) Ghigna. Married– Nancy Minnicks.\u00a0 Children–one. Married–Debra Holmes, August 2, 1975.\u00a0 Children–one.\u00a0Education– Attended Edison Community College, 1964-1966; Florida Atlantic University, B.A., 1968; M.A., 1969; University of South Florida; Florida State University.\u00a0 Taught high school English, Ft. Myers, Fl., 1968-1973; Edison Community College, 1973-74; Alabama School of Fine Arts, 1974-1993; Samford University, instructor in creative writing, 1979. . Free-lance writer after 1993. Published many works in anthologies and\u00a0journals.\u00a0 \u00a0Editor of English Journal, 1974; creator, director, and performer in “Cabbages and Kings,” television series for Alabama Educational Television, 1976. Author of nationally syndicated feature “Snickers” for Tribune Media Services, 1993-98. Has given hundreds of readings at schools and colleges.\u00a0 Received a Pulitzer Prize nomination, 1990; Helen Keller Literary award, 1993; First Prize, International Sakura Haiku Contest, 1993; Pick of the Lists, American Booksellers Association, 1994 and 1995. Performed his poetry at the Library of Congress in 1978 and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1984.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Alphabet Parade.\u00a0 River City Publishing, 2002.<\/p>\n

Animal Tracks:\u00a0 Wild Poems to Read Aloud.\u00a0 Harry N. Abrams, 2004.<\/p>\n

Animal Trunk:\u00a0 Silly Poems to Read Aloud.\u00a0 Harry N. Arams, 1999.<\/p>\n

Best of ‘Snickers’, Best of Times, 1994.<\/p>\n

Circus Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Creekwood Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Cockroach (one act play). S.l.; Contemporary Drama Service, 1977.<\/p>\n

The Day I Spent the Night in the Shelby County Jail.\u00a0 Best of Times, 1994.<\/p>\n

Divers and Other Poems.\u00a0 Creekwood Press, 1978.<\/p>\n

Dylan the Smokey Dragon.\u00a0 West and Baker, 2004.<\/p>\n

Father Songs. Creekwood Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

A Fury of Motion:\u00a0 Poems for Boys.\u00a0 Mills Press, 2003.<\/p>\n

Good Cats, Bad Cats.\u00a0 Hyperion, 1992.<\/p>\n

Good Dogs, Bad Dogs.\u00a0 Hyperion, 1992.<\/p>\n

Haiku: The Travelers of Eternity.\u00a0 River City Publishers, 2001.<\/p>\n

Halloween Night: Twenty-one Spooktacular Poems.\u00a0 Running Press Kids, 2003.<\/p>\n

I See Fall.\u00a0 Mankato, MN: Picture Window Books, 2012.<\/p>\n

I See Spring.\u00a0 Picture Window Books, 2012.<\/p>\n

I See Summer.\u00a0 Picture Window Books, 2012.<\/p>\n

I See Winter.\u00a0 Picture Window Books, 2012.<\/p>\n

If You Were My Valentine.\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 2004.<\/p>\n

Little Seeds.\u00a0 Mankato, MN: Picture Window Books, 2012.<\/p>\n

Love Poems.\u00a0 Crane Hill Publishers, 1999.<\/p>\n

Mice are Nice.\u00a0 Random House, 1999.<\/p>\n

My Country:\u00a0 Children Talk about America.\u00a0 Crane Hill Publishers, 2003.<\/p>\n

Oh My, Pumpkin Pie!\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 2005.<\/p>\n

One Hundred Shoes: A Math Reader.\u00a0 Random House, 2003.<\/p>\n

Plastic Soup: Dream Poems.\u00a0 Black Belt, 1999.<\/p>\n

Plastic Tears. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1973.<\/p>\n

Returning to Earth.\u00a0 Livingston University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n

Riddle Rhymes.\u00a0 Hyperion, 1995.<\/p>\n

See the Yak-Yak.\u00a0 Random House, 1999.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Tongues:\u00a0 New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994.\u00a0 Livingston University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n

Stables; the Story of Christmas; Poems and Prints. Birmingham, Ala.; Creekwood Press, 1975.<\/p>\n

Strange, Unusual, Gross, & Cool Animals.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Liberty Street, 2016.<\/p>\n

Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose.\u00a0 Hyperion, 1994.<\/p>\n

Wings of Fire.\u00a0 Druid, 1992.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christmas Is Coming.\u00a0 Talewinds, 2000.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feathers and Steel; the Birmingham Student Poets. Birmingham Student Poets. S.l.; s.n., 19–.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of the papers of Charles Ghigna is held by the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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