Gabrielle Calvocoressi Explained
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi |
Birth Date: | 1974 |
Birth Place: | Connecticut |
Notableworks: | The 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]
They studied at Sarah Lawrence College and earned an MFA from Columbia University.
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. .
- Apocalyptic Swing. Persea Books. 2009. .
- The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017.[24] [25]
- Rocket Fantastic. Persea Books. September 2017. .
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Various. Good Poems, American Places. 2011-04-14. Penguin. 9781101476192. en.
- News: LitFest Authors. 2012-11-05. SMU LitFest 2013. 2017-06-08. en-US.
- Web site: Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Poetry Society of America. www.poetrysociety.org. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Calvocoressi. Gabrielle. 2005-01-19. Gabrielle Calvocoressi. en. 2017-06-08.
- Calvocoressi, G. Perimenopause in a non-binary masculine presenting/imagined/dreamed of body has been __________. Destabilizing to say the least. Twitter, Oct. 1 2021.
- Calvocoressi, G. I mean, and I say this as a lesbian, you are gorgeous! Twitter, Sep. 29 2021.
- Web site: Writers@Grinnell: Gabrielle Calvocoressi . www.thesandb.com. en-US. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: The Year I Didn't Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi - The Best American Poetry. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: Apocalyptic Swing. aapone. 2014-02-04. Apocalyptic Swing. en. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: National Poetry Month: Gabrielle Calvocoressi To Read Apr. 7, Featured Events (Bowdoin). www.bowdoin.edu. 2017-06-08.
- News: Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. 2017-06-08. en-US.
- Web site: Visiting Writer: Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Vermont Studio Center. 12 May 2016 . en-US. 2017-06-08.
- News: About - Voluble. Voluble. 2017-06-08. en-US.
- Web site: Captain Lovell, ['Shakey Eyes Horton had nystagmus too'] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi]. 2017-06-08. Poetry Foundation. en-us. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: DIVEDAPPER // Gabrielle Calvocoressi. divedapper.. www.divedapper.com. 2017-06-08.
- News: FACULTY PAST & PRESENT. 2012-06-16. The MFA Program For Writers at Warren Wilson College. 2017-06-08. en-US. 2019-06-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190619202342/https://www.wwcmfa.org/faculty-2/faculty-past-present/. dead.
- Web site: Gabrielle Calvocoressi English & Comparative Literature. englishcomplit.unc.edu. en. 2017-06-08.
- News: Professors share passions in 20-year relationship. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows « Stanford Creative Writing Program. creativewriting.stanford.edu. en-US. 2017-06-08. 2018-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311043037/http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows. dead.
- Web site: The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards. www.ronajaffefoundation.org. 2017-06-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20180831015311/http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html. 2018-08-31. dead.
- Web site: Connecticut Book Award Winners 2002-2011 Connecticut Center for the Book. ctcenterforthebook.org. en-US. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: Music on the mind of poetry book prize finalist Gabrielle Calvocoressi. 2010-02-27. LA Times Blogs - Jacket Copy. en-US. 2017-06-08.
- Web site: Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Lannan Foundation. Diaz. Alex. www.lannan.org. en. 2017-06-08.
- News: UNC Professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi Releases a Free Collaborative Chapbook of Poetry and Recipes. Brown. Blanche. Indy Week. 2017-06-08. en.
- News: This Free Cookbook Offers Fortifying Recipes for Trying Times. Epicurious. 2017-06-08. en-US.