A life in verse
and song.

Howard Gipstein is a poet, songwriter, and musician whose work moves between quiet reflection and open-road storytelling.

His songs draw on decades of listening — folk, blues, and the plainspoken American songbook — and his poems return, again and again, to the questions that music alone can't answer.

Alongside his creative work, Howard is a longtime physical science educator, sharing classroom-tested materials with teachers around the country.