12 Facts About Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert was admitted to the University of Pittsburgh and graduated in 1954.

Jack Gilbert received his master's degree from San Francisco State University in 1963.

Jack Gilbert spent two years there before moving to New York and then to San Francisco, where his life as a poet began.

Jack Gilbert then retreated from his earlier activity in the San Francisco poetry scene, where he had participated in Jack Spicer's Poetry as Magic workshop, and, in 1964, moved to Europe.

Jack Gilbert then lived briefly in England, Denmark, and Greece before returning to San Francisco in 1967.

Jack Gilbert was a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at the University of Tennessee in 2004.

Much of Jack Gilbert's work is about his relationships with women.

Jack Gilbert was a close friend of the poet Linda Gregg, whom he met when she was nineteen and his student in San Francisco, and with whom he was in a relationship for six years.

Jack Gilbert never cared if he was poor or had to sleep on a park bench.

Jack Gilbert was in a significant long-term relationship with the poet Laura Ulewicz during the late fifties and early sixties in San Francisco.

Jack Gilbert was married to Michiko Nogami, another former student and a Japanese language instructor 21 years his junior, about whom he wrote many of his poems.

Jack Gilbert wrote two erotic novels with Jean Maclean which were published by the short-lived Danish Olympia Press under the pseudonym Tor Kung:.