The Jeanne Harris Hansell Endowed Fund for Poetry

10th Annual Jeanne Harris Hansell Endowed Poet

Gabrielle Calvocoressi 
Friday, April 26 | 7 p.m.
Kovler Family Library 

Free and Open to the Public
All are welcome to join us for an in-person reading and Q&A with celebrated poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi. The reading will be followed by a book signing.
 
Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia EarhartApocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize) and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa, Texas; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals, including The Baffler, The New York TimesPOETRYBoston ReviewKenyon ReviewTin House and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham, North Carolina, where joy, compassion and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Calvocoressi is the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2023–24. Please find more info about them on their website Gabrielle Calvocoressi.
 
This event is made possible through a gift from the Hansell family. The Jeanne Harris Hansell Endowed Fund for Poetry, established in the name of Jeanne Harris Hansell ’45, will ensure continued success of the “Poetry at Parker” series, as well as allow the school to host renowned guest poets and speakers about poetry in years to come. Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins was Parker’s inaugural visiting poet in the 2012–13 academic year, followed by Nikky Finney, Louise Glück, Kevin Young, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Trethewey, Elise Paschen ’77 and Julian Randall ’11.
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