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 61: Rosa Alcalá (Translation Series, Ep. 1)
Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
Episode 59: Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Episode 58: Cate Marvin
Episode 57: Dorothea Lasky
Episode 56: Jennifer Kronovet
Episode 55: Anne Waldman
Episode 54: Gerald Stern
Episode 53: Tommy Pico
Episode 52: Richard Siken
Episode 51: TC Tolbert
Episode 50: Inside Commonplace
Episode 49: CAConrad
Episode 48: Poets at MacDowell: Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, & Amanda Galvan Huynh
Episode 47: Erin Riley
Episode 46: Allison Parrish
Episode 45: Tyehimba Jess
Episode 44: Matthew Zapruder
Episode 43: Airea D. Matthews
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