Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Born1974
Connecticut
Notable worksThe Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005),

Apocalyptic Swing (2009),

Rocket Fantastic (2017)

Life and career

Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in 1974[1] in central Connecticut.[2] Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across the state.[3][4] Calvocoressi, who identifies as nonbinary and lesbian,[5][6] has used their writing to reflect on their mother's mental illness and suicide;[7][8] their work also explores small town America, history, sexuality, faith, violence, gender, and the body.[9][7]

They studied at Sarah Lawrence College and earned an MFA from Columbia University.[2]

They have been a visiting professor of poetry at UCLA, Bennington College, and UC-Irvine, and held a Stegner Fellowship and a Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.[10] They also taught in the MFA program at California College of the Arts.

Calvocoressi is Poetry Editor at Large for the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).[11] Stemming from their "deep interest in interdisciplinary approaches to writing, art, and ecological culture," they created Voluble, an "off-the-page makers’ space for writers and artists of all kinds," supported by LARB.[12][13]

They have written about their experiences with nystagmus and how the visual/neurological difference has shaped their work as a poet and a reader.[14][15][8]

They now teach in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers,[16] and at University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, where they are an Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry.[17] They live in North Carolina with their partner Angeline Shaka.[18] Currently, they serve as the director for The Frost Place Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH.

Awards and honors

Works

  • The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart. Persea Books. 2005. ISBN 9780892553150. OCLC 56591239
  • Apocalyptic Swing. Persea Books. 2009. ISBN 9780892553532. OCLC 892496860
  • The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017.[24][25]
  • Rocket Fantastic. Persea Books. September 2017. ISBN 9780892554850. OCLC 1008903574

References

  1. ↑ Various (2011-04-14). Good Poems, American Places. Penguin. ISBN 9781101476192.
  2. 1 2 "LitFest Authors". SMU LitFest 2013. 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  3. ↑ "Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  4. ↑ Calvocoressi, Gabrielle (2005-01-19). "Gabrielle Calvocoressi". Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  5. ↑ Calvocoressi, G. Perimenopause in a non-binary masculine presenting/imagined/dreamed of body has been __________. Destabilizing to say the least. Twitter, Oct. 1 2021.
  6. ↑ Calvocoressi, G. I mean, and I say this as a lesbian, you are gorgeous! Twitter, Sep. 29 2021.
  7. 1 2 "Writers@Grinnell: Gabrielle Calvocoressi |". www.thesandb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  8. 1 2 "The Year I Didn't Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi - The Best American Poetry". blog.bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  9. ↑ aapone (2014-02-04). "Apocalyptic Swing". Apocalyptic Swing. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  10. 1 2 "National Poetry Month: Gabrielle Calvocoressi To Read Apr. 7, Featured Events (Bowdoin)". www.bowdoin.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  11. ↑ "Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  12. ↑ "Visiting Writer: Gabrielle Calvocoressi". Vermont Studio Center. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  13. ↑ "About - Voluble". Voluble. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  14. ↑ "Captain Lovell, ['Shakey Eyes Horton had nystagmus too'] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi". Poetry Foundation. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  15. ↑ divedapper. "DIVEDAPPER // Gabrielle Calvocoressi". www.divedapper.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  16. ↑ "FACULTY PAST & PRESENT". The MFA Program For Writers at Warren Wilson College. 2012-06-16. Archived from the original on 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  17. ↑ "Gabrielle Calvocoressi | English & Comparative Literature". englishcomplit.unc.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  18. ↑ "Professors share passions in 20-year relationship". Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  19. ↑ "Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows « Stanford Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  20. ↑ "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". www.ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  21. ↑ "Connecticut Book Award Winners 2002-2011 | Connecticut Center for the Book". ctcenterforthebook.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  22. ↑ "Music on the mind of poetry book prize finalist Gabrielle Calvocoressi". LA Times Blogs - Jacket Copy. 2010-02-27. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  23. ↑ Diaz, Alex. "Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Lannan Foundation". www.lannan.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  24. ↑ Brown, Blanche. "UNC Professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi Releases a Free Collaborative Chapbook of Poetry and Recipes". Indy Week. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  25. ↑ "This Free Cookbook Offers Fortifying Recipes for Trying Times". Epicurious. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
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