The astounding poems that comprise–vividly inhabit–Kevin McLellan’s In other words you/ waver between biblical lamentations and a contemplative sense of memorialized irony. Timothy Liu, author of Vox Angelica, Say Goodnight, and Of Thee I Sing The you you left with will not be the same you upon return. We are reminded of the demands that the libido makes, the joys of (w)rote habits ruptured by the new, all of it backed up by an Eighties soundtrack pulsing hard out of the Castro all the way to the U.K.

These queer meditations are both directly addressed to and overheard by a beloved You-Self / Other / Reader conjoined in a dance of enjambed vocables, a syntactic pas de deux of monostichs and couplets punctuated by fragmentary prose epistles. They earned their MFA in poetry from Columbia University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.On March 17, Bartos Theater will host the book launch and video screening for Kevin McLellan’s third full-length poetry collection “in other words you/”. Their poems have appeared in such magazines and journals as the Baffler, Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, the New York Times, the New Yorker, Poetry, and Tin House.

Conners Prize for Poetry from the Paris Review. Calvocoressi’s work considers the effects of power, trauma, and compassion on the private and public body, particularly in relation to gender and the human vessel.Īt Radcliffe, Calvocoressi will complete their fourth book of poems, “The New Economy.” They will also begin work on a book of essays/introspections on the lyric poem and the poetics of their genderless body as it enters middle age and reckons with its own relentless biology.Ĭalvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award a Lannan Residency Fellowship, in Marfa, Texas and the Bernard F. They are the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea Books, 2005) Apocalyptic Swing (Persea Books, 2009), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books, 2017), winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Gabrielle Calvocoressi is a poet and artist who lives in Old East Durham, North Carolina, and an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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