Where:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design (DMC, Huntington Rm, 3rd flr)
621 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, LGBTQ+, University
Event website:
https://calendar.massart.edu/event/gabrielle_calvocoressi_presents_in_the_creative_writing_reading_series_6456
Gabrielle Calvocoressi presents recent work and answers questions from the audience. All are invited.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer's Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi's poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler, The New York Times, POETRY, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled, The Year I Didn't Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Calvocoressi is the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022 - 2023. https://gabriellecalvocoressi.com/
Saturday, Dec 21, 2024 11:00a
Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre