Gibbons Ruark

Gibbons Ruark (full name, Henry Gibbons Ruark, Jr.) was a professor of English and poet from Raleigh, North Carolina. Ruark earned his BA from UNC-Chapel Hill and his MA from UMASS-Amherst. His books included A Program for Survival (University Press of Virginia, 1971), REEDS (Texas Tech Press, 1978), Rescue the Perishing (Louisiana State University Press, 1991), Passing through Customs: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1999), and Staying Blue (Lost Hill Books, 2008), and The Road to Ballyvaughan (Jacar Press, 2015).

Ruark died on October 19, 2025.