The CHA's 4th Annual Cox Family Process Speaker Series

The Center for Humanities & the Arts invites you to hear from Gabrielle Calvocoressi, an award-winning poet, UNC Chapel Hill Associate Professor, Editor at Large of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures.

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). This event focuses on Calvocoressi's Rocket Fantastic, which has been described as a "spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family."

In Rocket Fantastic, Calvocoressi explores a genderless world by utilizing the musical segno symbol in replacement of traditional pronouns. This allows readers to engage with the poem’s content while leaving sex and gender as an open question.

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.  

Learn more here: www.colorado.edu/cha/CoxSpeakerSeries-GabrielleCalvocoressi

The CHA's 4th Annual Cox Family Process Speaker Series

The Center for Humanities & the Arts invites you to hear from Gabrielle Calvocoressi, an award-winning poet, UNC Chapel Hill Associate Professor, Editor at Large of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures.

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). This event focuses on Calvocoressi's Rocket Fantastic, which has been described as a "spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family."

In Rocket Fantastic, Calvocoressi explores a genderless world by utilizing the musical segno symbol in replacement of traditional pronouns. This allows readers to engage with the poem’s content while leaving sex and gender as an open question.

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.  

Learn more here: www.colorado.edu/cha/CoxSpeakerSeries-GabrielleCalvocoressi