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Charles Ghigna

Ghigna's influences on his early writing attempts included his parents, especially his creative mother, poets Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Ogden Nash, John Updike, and James Dickey.

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Award-winning Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose (1994), which was chosen Pick of the List by the American Booksellers Association, is a collection of 30 poems previously submitted to magazines.

Cypress Lake High School

Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" taught English at Cypress Lake High School, 1967–1973

Fort Myers Senior High School

Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" graduated 1964

Turtle Magazine

Charles Ghigna (“Father Goose”), renowned poet and children’s book author of 50 award-winning books and a Pulitzer Prize nominee for Returning to Earth, sits on Turtle’s editorial advisory board and has had his work published in the magazine.

Wiregrass Region

Harper's Magazine featured a poem by Charles Ghigna in September 1974 describing the Wiregrass Region titled "The Alabama Wiregrassers."

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