Thursday, September 27, 2007

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and New Stuff on the Litlab

Over at the Writers At Cornell Blog, you'll find an interview I conducted today with poet Gabrielle Calvocaressi, author of the collection The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart. A recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, she has been both a Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. She lives in Los Angeles. We discussed the long, apelike shadow of Wallace Stevens, porno drive-ins, and what precisely a prose poem thinks it's supposed to be. Gabby is funny as hell, and gave a great reading this afternoon--stop by and give it a look.

In addition, The Litlab is really cooking, with new weird stuff from William Walsh, Sharma Shields, Evan Sobel, Tim Reynolds, Adalena Kavanagh, and Dana Koster.

4 comments:

bigscarygiraffe said...

I've never witnessed anything so brilliant before. She's my new favorite super hero.

Anonymous said...

I think her book is pretty good, but I like the newer poems way better. The line "I love you / like Elvis loved pistols" was perhaps the best of the day...

bigscarygiraffe said...

That line combined with her reading style made it the best of my year

Dana said...

I liked her new stuff, but The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earheart is the best book of poetry I've read in a long time. I think I'll reserve judgment on the new book until I see it in print.