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 81: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 2
Episode 80: Commonplace goes to Taiwan, Part 1
Episode 79: Christine Larusso
Episode 78: Anne Boyer
Episode 77: Tina Chang
Episode 76: Ada Limón
Episode 75: Victoria Chang
Episode 74: Rachel Zucker's SoundMachine
Episode 73: Jennifer Croft (Translation Series Ep. 3)
Episode 72: Ilya Kaminsky
Episode 71: Mira Jacob
Episode 70: Alicia Jo Rabins
Episode 69: Live Reading with Brown, Joseph, Meitner Parker, Pico, Tolbert, and Yanyi
Episode 68: Live Reading w/ Calvocoressi, Falkner, Gay and Mark
Episode 67: John Biewen
Episode 66: Sarah Gambito
Episode 65: Hillary Frank
Episode 64: John Keene (Translation Series, Ep. 2)
Episode 63: Juliana Spahr
Episode 62: Khadijah Queen
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