Apocalyptic Swing Poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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. Conners Prize from The Paris Review and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. 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, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

That and how it helps with my visual disability. It’s so fun to read some of the Proust and then click over to the other book. And, at the same time, I’m reading The Hare With The Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, which is (to some extent) about his great-great (am I getting all the greats…there are a bunch) uncle who was supposedly the person Swann was based on. This time I’m just reading it slowly for pleasure before the sun comes up. Wow has that been a revelation. I think that’s one of those books I originally read to prove I could. Oh! In the mornings on my electronic reader, before I get out of bed, I’m rereading In Search of Lost Time. I’m grateful to the writer Vanessa Hua (who also has a new book coming out) for mentioning it in a talk I went to on foraging. But overall there’s a ton of interesting thought and discussion in it. It came out in the 90’s and is dated in ways that require a bit of a deep breath. I’m reading Tastes Like War by Grace Cho, which I love so far.Īnd a really great book called The Geography of Childhood by Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble. Her humor and compassion in the face of utter devastation. I just love the spaciousness of her mind. It comes out from Copper Canyon in a few months.

I’m reading Dana Levin’s new book, Now Do You Know Where You Are. Somehow I never read it before and I feel so lucky to have been at a lecture given by Sandra Lim (whose new book is also amazing) where she discussed this book.

I am reading a bunch of different stuff! I’m reading the AMAZING book, Does Your House Have Lions? by Sonia Sanchez.

Apocalyptic Swing Poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi