

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. 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, released by Persea Books in September 2017.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the reading, with thanks to A Room of One's Own, Madison's independent bookstore since 1975. Yes, you may come only to the poetry reading and not the potluck, but come early to get a seat as space is limited. POETRY READING: Following the potluck, Gabrielle Calvocoressi will read from their new book, Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books, 2017). For ideas or inspiration, check out the New Economy Chapbook Cookbook.ħ p.m. 1, which Calvocoressi coordinated, you are invited to join for dinner with a dish to share that you care about. NEW ECONOMY POTLUCK: In the spirit of the New Economy Chapbook Cookbook vol. Join us for a potluck and a poetry reading with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Saturday 2/3/18, at EVERYDAY GAY HOLIDAY ( 2088 Atwood Ave), presented by The University of Wisconsin's Program in Creative Writing, with support from the Anonymous Fund and additional co-sponsorship from UW Libraries and the LGBT Campus Center.ĥ p.m. Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of Rocket Fantastic Paperback / $15.OFFSITE A Room of One's Own book launch at EVERYDAY GAY HOLIDAY She is Editor at Large for Los Angeles Review of Books and Assistant Professor and Walker Percy Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Conners Prize from the Paris Review, and The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers and the Bernard F. Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of two other collections of poetry, Rocket Fantastic and Apocalyptic Swing. teas meaning out of a past.that still dogs us.” “An excoriation of present-day America by a new and lethal commentator.” Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review “Calvocoressi brings keen and sympathetic attention to the local disasters the larger world has often overlooked.” In painstaking, vernacular verse, she conveys the ambitions and failings of a distraught populace. Gabrielle Calvocoressi uses her prodigious gifts of imagination and empathy to give voice to the hope and heartbreak of small-town America. Winner of the 2006 Connecticut Book Award
