24PearlStreet Workshops and Events

Gabrielle Calvocoressi Fantastic Worlds In the Realest Poems: How Fantasy Fiction Might Help Our Hardest Realities Bloom Poetry August 6 to August 31, 2018 Number of Participants: 15 Price: $500 Format: 4 Week Asynchronous Workshop

In this class we will read Fantasy Fiction by writers such as Zen Cho, Ursula Le Guin, JY Yang and others as a means of thinking about “fantasy” and world building in our own work. We will write poems and make maps and catalogues and histories. In short, we will move deeply into the magical and often extraordinary business of everyday life and write poems that truly see the world in every dimension. This class is an experiment and a workshop and a reading group. Everyone is welcome on this journey.

Biography

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 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, will be released in the fall of 2025 from Copper Canyon Press.