Gabrielle Calvocoressi
{{short description| American poet, editor, essayist, and professor}}{{Infobox writer
| name = Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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| birth_date = 1974
| birth_place = Central Connecticut, U.S.
| occupation = Poet, professor
| language = English
| nationality = American
| education = Sarah Lawrence College
Columbia University (MFA)
| notableworks = The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart
Apocalyptic Swing
Rocket Fantastic
| genre = Poetry
| subjects = Small-town America, gender, sexuality, faith, history, mental health, the body
| awards = Stegner Fellowship (2000)
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2002)
Jones Lectureship at Stanford University (2002)
Connecticut Book Award in Poetry (2006)
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (2009)
Lannan Foundation Writers' Residency (2012)
| partner = Angeline Shaka
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Gabrielle Calvocoressi is an American poet, editor, essayist, and professor.
Life and career
Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in 1974{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4me3_4ndTQC&q=1974+%22gabrielle+calvocoressi%22&pg=PT230|title=Good Poems, American Places|last=Various|date=2011-04-14|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781101476192|language=en}} in central Connecticut.{{Cite news|url=https://smulitfest.wordpress.com/2013-litfest-authors/|title=LitFest Authors|date=2012-11-05|work=SMU LitFest 2013|access-date=2017-06-08|language=en-US}} Their family owned movie theaters, including a drive-in, in several small towns across the state.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/qa_american_poetry/page_48/|title=Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Poetry Society of America|website=www.poetrysociety.org|access-date=2017-06-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/gabrielle-calvocoressi|title=Gabrielle Calvocoressi|last=Calvocoressi|first=Gabrielle|date=2005-01-19|website=Gabrielle Calvocoressi|language=en|access-date=2017-06-08}} Calvocoressi, who is a nonbinary lesbian,Calvocoressi, G. [https://twitter.com/rocketfantastic/status/1444007464899383345 Perimenopause in a non-binary masculine presenting/imagined/dreamed of body has been __________. Destabilizing to say the least.] Twitter, Oct. 1 2021.Calvocoressi, G. [https://twitter.com/rocketfantastic/status/1443257308314734592 I mean, and I say this as a lesbian, you are gorgeous!] Twitter, Sep. 29 2021. has used their writing to reflect on their mother's mental illness and suicide;{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesandb.com/article/writersgrinnell-gabrielle-calvocoressi.html|title=Writers@Grinnell: Gabrielle Calvocoressi {{!}}|website=www.thesandb.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-08}}{{Cite web|url=http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2013/11/the-year-i-didnt-kill-myself-by-gabrielle-calvocoressi.html|title=The Year I Didn't Kill Myself by Gabrielle Calvocoressi - The Best American Poetry|website=blog.bestamericanpoetry.com|access-date=2017-06-08}} their work also explores small town America, history, sexuality, faith, violence, gender, and the body.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/book/apocalyptic-swing|title=Apocalyptic Swing|last=aapone|date=2014-02-04|website=Apocalyptic Swing|language=en|access-date=2017-06-08}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/events/archives/008352.shtml|title=National Poetry Month: Gabrielle Calvocoressi To Read Apr. 7, Featured Events (Bowdoin)|website=www.bowdoin.edu|access-date=2017-06-08}} 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).{{Cite news|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/about/masthead/|title=Masthead - Los Angeles Review of Books|work=Los Angeles Review of Books|access-date=2017-06-08|language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/gabrielle-calvocoressi|title=Visiting Writer: Gabrielle Calvocoressi|website=Vermont Studio Center|date=12 May 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-08}}{{Cite news|url=http://volublelab.com/about/|title=About - Voluble|work=Voluble|access-date=2017-06-08|language=en-US}}
They have written about their experiences with nystagmus and how the visual/neurological difference has shaped their work as a poet and a reader.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/56896|title=Captain Lovell, ['Shakey Eyes Horton had nystagmus too'] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi|date=2017-06-08|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2017-06-08}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.divedapper.com/interview/gabrielle-calvocoressi/|title=DIVEDAPPER // Gabrielle Calvocoressi|last=divedapper.|website=www.divedapper.com|access-date=2017-06-08}}
They now teach in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers,{{Cite news|url=http://www.wwcmfa.org/faculty-2/faculty-past-present/|title=FACULTY PAST & PRESENT|date=2012-06-16|work=The MFA Program For Writers at Warren Wilson College|access-date=2017-06-08|language=en-US|archive-date=2019-06-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190619202342/https://www.wwcmfa.org/faculty-2/faculty-past-present/|url-status=dead}} and at University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, where they are an Associate Professor and Walker Percy Fellow in Poetry.{{Cite web|url=http://englishcomplit.unc.edu/people/calvocoressig|title=Gabrielle Calvocoressi {{!}} English & Comparative Literature|website=englishcomplit.unc.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-08}} They live in North Carolina with their partner Angeline Shaka.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/03/professors-share-passions-in-20-year-relationship|title=Professors share passions in 20-year relationship|access-date=2017-06-08}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows|title=Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows « Stanford Creative Writing Program|website=creativewriting.stanford.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-08|archive-date=2018-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311043037/http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows|url-status=dead}}
- 2002 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html|title=The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards|website=www.ronajaffefoundation.org|access-date=2017-06-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831015311/http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html|archive-date=2018-08-31|url-status=dead}}
- 2002 Jones Lectureship at Stanford University.
- 2006 Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, winner for The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart.{{Cite web|url=https://ctcenterforthebook.org/connecticut-book-award-winners-2002-2011/|title=Connecticut Book Award Winners 2002-2011 {{!}} Connecticut Center for the Book|website=ctcenterforthebook.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-08}}
- 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, finalist for Apocalyptic Swing.{{Cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/02/poetry-book-prize-finalist-gabrielle-calvocoressi.html|title=Music on the mind of poetry book prize finalist Gabrielle Calvocoressi|date=2010-02-27|website=LA Times Blogs - Jacket Copy|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-08}}
- 2012 Lannan Foundation Writers' Residency in Marfa.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lannan.org/residency/experience/gabrielle-calvocoressi|title=Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Lannan Foundation|last=Diaz|first=Alex|website=www.lannan.org|language=en|access-date=2017-06-08}}
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/unc-professor-gabrielle-calvocoressi-releases-a-free-collaborative-chapbook-of-poetry-and-recipes/Content?oid=5881095|title=UNC Professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi Releases a Free Collaborative Chapbook of Poetry and Recipes|last=Brown|first=Blanche|work=Indy Week|access-date=2017-06-08|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/save-money-on-dinner-new-economy-chapbook-cookbook-article|title=This Free Cookbook Offers Fortifying Recipes for Trying Times|work=Epicurious|access-date=2017-06-08|language=en-US}}
- Rocket Fantastic. Persea Books. September 2017. {{ISBN|9780892554850}}. {{OCLC|1008903574}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.southernfoodways.org/app/uploads/new-economy-chap-cookbook.pdf Chapbook: Southern Foodways Alliance > The New Economy Chapbook Vol. 1: Inexpensive, Healthy, Hopeful Feasts for 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604150149/http://www.southernfoodways.org/app/uploads/new-economy-chap-cookbook.pdf |date=2017-06-04 }}
- [http://aprweb.org/poems/praise-house-the-new-economy Poem: The American Poetry Review > Vol. 44, No. 6 > Praise House: The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
- [http://bostonreview.net/poetry/gabrielle-calvocoressi-rocket-fantastic Poem: Boston Review > 2013 > from Rocket Fantastic by Gabrielle Calvocoressi]
- [https://www.divedapper.com/interview/gabrielle-calvocoressi/ Interview: Divedapper > No. 19, March 2015 > An Interview with Gabrielle Calvocoressi by Kaveh Akbar]
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:Poets from Connecticut
Category:Sarah Lawrence College alumni
Category:Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American lesbian writers