Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005); Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books, 2009), a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books, 2017), winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas, the Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry from The Paris Review, and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals, including The Baffler, The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker.
Luminous Gender Vessel
Fall 2023
Luminous Gender Vessel Introduction
Dear Melissa, Hello from our little yellow house in Old East Durham. A rainy day in what will be a series of rainy days in what will be a very […]
The Hybrid Lyric
Sept/Oct 2017
[I like it when]
I like it whentouches me there, right above the forehead with whose whole palm and moves whose hand along my skull until it rests below my neck and sort of […]
The Hybrid Lyric
Sept/Oct 2017
In a Landscape of Perpetual Springtime
If I remember the locust it’s not because I was there. If I remember the deer with her tongue in my hand, well, it’s just because I heard a song […]
The Hybrid Lyric
Sept/Oct 2017
[If I wait long enough]
If I wait long enough I’ll hear them nesting and I don’t have to waitthat long. They aren’t scared of me: the falcons. I’m standing in the field beneath the […]
Sept/Oct 2017
[There’s a point]; [The Bandleader]; [Some kids killed a goat]; [The paint chipped away]
[There’s a point] There’s a point where it all gets still, when the Bandleader’s there between the branches of my fingers. When I cover my eyes as if to block […]
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of the forthcoming Rocket Fantastic. She is editor at large at Los Angeles Review of Books and a founding curator at Voluble, a digital makers’ […]