Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
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Born | 1974 Connecticut |
Notable works | The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005), Apocalyptic Swing (2009), |
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 has used their writing to reflect on their mother's mental illness and suicide;[5][6] their work also explores small town America, history, sexuality, faith, violence, gender, and the body.[7][5]
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.[8] 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).[9] 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.[10][11]
They have written about their experiences with nystagmus and how the visual/neurological difference has shaped their work as a poet and a reader.[12][13][6]
They now teach in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers,[14] and at University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, where they are an Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry.[15] They live in North Carolina with their partner Angeline Shaka.[16] Currently, they serve as the director for The Frost Place Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH.
Awards and honors[]
- 2000 Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.[17]
- 2002 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.[18]
- 2002 Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.[8]
- 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, winner for The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.[19]
- 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for Apocalyptic Swing.[20]
- 2012 Lannan Foundation Writers' Residency in Marfa.[21]
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.[22][23]
- Rocket Fantastic. Persea Books. September 2017. ISBN 9780892554850. OCLC 1008903574
References[]
- ^ Various (2011-04-14). Good Poems, American Places. Penguin. ISBN 9781101476192.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "LitFest Authors". SMU LitFest 2013. 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Poetry Society of America". www.poetrysociety.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Calvocoressi, Gabrielle (2005-01-19). "Gabrielle Calvocoressi". Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Writers@Grinnell: Gabrielle Calvocoressi |". www.thesandb.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "The Year I Didn't Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi - The Best American Poetry". blog.bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ aapone (2014-02-04). "Apocalyptic Swing". Apocalyptic Swing. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Poetry Month: Gabrielle Calvocoressi To Read Apr. 7, Featured Events (Bowdoin)". www.bowdoin.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Visiting Writer: Gabrielle Calvocoressi". Vermont Studio Center. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "About - Voluble". Voluble. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Captain Lovell, ['Shakey Eyes Horton had nystagmus too'] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi". Poetry Foundation. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ divedapper. "DIVEDAPPER // Gabrielle Calvocoressi". www.divedapper.com. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "FACULTY PAST & PRESENT". The MFA Program For Writers at Warren Wilson College. 2012-06-16. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Gabrielle Calvocoressi | English & Comparative Literature". englishcomplit.unc.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Professors share passions in 20-year relationship". Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows « Stanford Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". www.ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Connecticut Book Award Winners 2002-2011 | Connecticut Center for the Book". ctcenterforthebook.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "Music on the mind of poetry book prize finalist Gabrielle Calvocoressi". LA Times Blogs - Jacket Copy. 2010-02-27. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Diaz, Alex. "Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Lannan Foundation". www.lannan.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Brown, Blanche. "UNC Professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi Releases a Free Collaborative Chapbook of Poetry and Recipes". Indy Week. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "This Free Cookbook Offers Fortifying Recipes for Trying Times". Epicurious. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
External links[]
- Chapbook: Southern Foodways Alliance > The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017
- Poem: The American Poetry Review > Vol. 44, No. 6 > Praise House: The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
- Poem: Boston Review > 2013 > from Rocket Fantastic by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
- Interview: Divedapper > No. 19, March 2015 > An Interview with Gabrielle Calvocoressi by Kaveh Akbar
- 1974 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American poets
- LGBT poets
- Poets from Connecticut
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- LGBT writers from the United States
- American women poets
- 21st-century American women writers