Rachel Zucker talks with poet, editor, professor Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of three full length collections, most recently Rocket Fantastic, about her new book. They also talk about wanting things, reading in New York, God, prayer, nystagmus (a neurological eye condition), practicing Judaism (but not converting to Judaism) in Los Angeles and in the South, gender identity, gender expression, sexual fantasies, gayness and queerness, butch lesbianism, bros, the symbol she uses in Rocket Fantastic instead of a gendered pronoun and how she reads that symbol, having and recovering from a nervous breakdown and panic attacks, mental health, not seeking out trouble, getting to know the animal you are, envy, jealousy, the granting and prize system in poetry, ambition, unionizing poets, and being honest.
EXTRA RESOURCES FOR EPISODE 42Books by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Rocket Fantastic (Persea, 2017)
Apocalyptic Swing (Persea, 2012)
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea, 2005)
Other Writers and Artists Mentioned in the EpisodeLorine Niedecker
CAConrad
Ross Gay
Adrian Matejka
Bob Bledsoe
Romayne Rubinas Dorsey
Gabriel Fried
Dana Levin
Other Relevant LinksThe Stegner Fellowship
The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University
Lannan Foundation
Indiana University - Bloomington English and Writing Program
Vermont Studio Center
Jon Kabat-Zinn (Mindfulness Stress reduction program)
the lesbian avengers
ACT UP
Herstory
Text of the Rosh Hashanah sermon by Rabbi Tom Gutherz that Rachel heard while in Charlottesville, VA
Ikar— Jewish group in LA
Voluble Lab
Episode 121: Fred Moten and Ronaldo Wilson - Part 2
Episode 120: Fred Moten and Ronaldo V. Wilson
Episode 119: Eugenia Leigh's Bianca (KTCO feed drop)
Episode 118: Laurel Snyder
Episode 117: Charif Shanahan & Safia Elhillo with Isaac Ginsberg Miller
Episode 116: The Gathered Congregation
Episode 115: Moheb Soliman
Episode 114: Live & Embodied
113: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Episode 112: Gabrielle Octavia Rucker with V Conaty
Episode 111: The Confessional Episode
Episode 110: The Poetics of Wrongness
Episode 109: Joy Harjo
Episode 108: Saeed Jones
Episode 107: Eileen Myles
Episode 106: S. Yarberry with V Conaty
Episode 105: Carl Phillips
Episode 104: The Critical Response Process with Liz Lerman & John Borstel
Episode 103: Cody-Rose Clevidence with Valentine Conaty
Episode 102: Rebekah Wolkstein
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