Potluck Poems Coffin Blooms: A Craft Talk with Gabrielle Calvocoressi

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | In this time together, we’ll talk about the way potlucks can open a portal into a poetics of rigorous and joyful generosity. We’ll talk about the ways that civic and poetic practice come together when we eat together, plant together, and bury our dead. This is a collaborative class. All are welcome. Let’s bloom.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The New Economy (Copper Canyon, 2025), a finalist for the National Book Award. Their previous collections, all from Persea Books, include The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (2005); Apocalyptic Swing (2009), a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize); and Rocket Fantastic (2017), winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Their poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Baffler, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Poetry. They are an editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book, The Year I Didn't Kill Myself and a novel, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was The 2022-23 Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute. They teach at UNC Chapel Hill.

Photo credit: Alyssa LaFaro

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