RESCHEDULED – Sunday Workshop: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
November 16 @ 1:30 pm
EVENT CANCELLATION / RESCHEDULE NOTICE:
Due to travel complications, this workshop has been rescheduled to March 22, 2026.
Our November workshop will now take place with Elizabeth Hoover. Details here.
PHOTO CREDIT: Alyssa LaFaro (Calvocoressi)
In conjunction with our November Observable Readings, Saint Louis Poetry Center is thrilled to welcome poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the November Sunday Workshop! This workshop will be a generative workshop.
GUIDELINES & REGISTRATION
Please note: this workshop is limited to 12 participants. Registration is required, and is first-come, first-served.
- Registration is due by Wednesday, November 12
- This is a generative workshop in which participants will draft & revise their own poems
- No poem submissions will be accepted for this event
- Poets will not review manuscripts or provide feedback ahead of time
- Those registering are expected to attend the workshop
To register, email:
[email protected]
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 12, 2025
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This workshop will be a generative workshop.
ABOUT THE POET
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic 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, TX; 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 Times, POETRY, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Tin 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, NC, where joy, compassion, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry, The New Economy, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry.