Gabrielle Calvocoressi was born in Central Connecticut. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, and a Jones Lectureship in Poetry, at Stanford University, and a Rona Jaffe Woman Writers’ Award. Her poem “Circus Fire, 1944” received The Paris Review‘s Bernard F. Conners Prize. She is the author […]
You beautiful, broke- back horse of my heart. Proud, debonair, not quite there in the head. You current with no river in sight. Current as confetti after parades. You small-town. Italian ice shop next to brothels beside the highway. Sweet and sweaty. You high as a kite coming down. You suburban […]
Breathless in the backwoods backlit by what joy could hold you I see you, naked as stripped wire all coiled against the quarry man’s hands. You dance the polecat dance I lay by the tires, unseen. I crawled here, sniffing the ground for clues, bloodhound, girl child rooting you out. Get gone, you’d […]
Rest now. It was never real. The factories are nothing more than the mouths of horns. You dreamed the man in the doorway. The slap of his belt is an upright bass. And what you took to be your brother hanging in the cellar is just a lady dancing. Let her […]
after Tom Andrews The winter continued and I thought I heard voices. Butchers sharpened their knives and I thought I heard voices. Roy Orbison moaned and I thought I heard voices. In the dark room of childhood I thought I heard voices. My bike chain came loose and I thought I heard […]
Like the horn you played in Catholic school the city will open its mouth and cry out. Don’t worry ‘bout nothing. Don’t mean no thing. It will leave you stunned as a fighter with his eyes swelled shut who’s told he won the whole damn purse. It will feel better than any […]
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005), talks with Matt O’Donnell and Camille Dungy at AWP 2007 about why she hadn’t at that point submitted text to accompany the audio of her poem At Last the New Arriving.
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005), talks about how she became interested in writing poetry.